Experimental Cinema at ‘Black Sun’
The wonderful ‘weirdo music’ event Black Sun has kindly invited Cork Film Centre to programme a selection of experimental films as part of their next evening.
Saturday, December 5th, 7 pm, @ The Pavilion, Cork
Tickets are €10 and are available from Plugd Records
The film programme:
The first Black Sun experimental cinema programme, curated by Maximilian Le Cain, consists of three short films, each articulating a different potential of the transformative perceptual processes that film and video have at their disposal.
Cork filmmaker Chris O’Neill’s Saint Francis Didn’t Run Numbers (3 mins, 2009) excavates new and surprising spaces from a famous American film of the ‘70s, abstracting a silent, hidden universe from the bustle of narrativity and causing the viewer to question how many other potential films might be concealed in any given movie.
Copy Scream (3 mins, 2005) is a breakthrough work by Oriol Sánchez, arguably the most gifted experimental filmmaker to have come out of Spain in the past decade. His films have been showcased twice in Cork this year, at Cork Film Festival and during the Avant Festival. Copy Scream is a visceral examination of the process of ‘projection’, not only projector-screen projection but also the numerous ‘projections’ a moving image undergoes as it migrates across media.
The evening’s centerpiece screening is a very rare showing of Etienne O’Leary’s Homeo (40 mins, 1967), an object-lesson in the cinematic intensification of images drawn from day-to-day reality, in which home movie footage is rendered rock’n’roll poetry through montage. This cinematic treasure is one of the very few films made by O’Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated ‘diary films’. Like the contemporaneous films by O’Leary’s more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trippily document the drug-drenched hedonism of that era’s dandies. In contrast to the back-to-origins minimalism of the Zanzibar Group (Garrel, Deval, Reynal, Bard, etc), O’Leary worked with an intoxicating style that foregrounded rapid and even subliminal cutting, dense layering of superimposed images and a spontaneous notebook type shooting style. The touchstone would seem to be Mekas and the New York underground rather than Godard. Yet even if much of O’Leary’s material was initially ‘diaristic’, depicting the friends, lovers, and places that he encountered in his private life, the metamorphoses it underwent during editing transformed it into a series of ambiguously fictionalized, sometimes darkly sexual fantasias.
The live lineup sees Black Sun welcoming a large portion of the Brighton 'out' family: in the shape of the hugely influential duo, Blood Stereo, accompanied by Gryn Brvs, HereHareHere, and the debut solo performance from Fuaimbhac, Galway-based artist Anne Marie Deacy.
Blood Stereo are major figures in the world of weirdo music. The husband and wife duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance, tap into a buried realm of sound by pushing sound-poetry and musique concrete strategies to breaking point, with the outcome a heady mix of wine-fuelled brain drain fog. More than sound art, noise, voice, handmade and unmade objects provide the frame for a unique post-musical venture. Dylan Nyoukis's work cuts across the borders of contemporary avant garde art and DIY underground. As a leading light in the UK's tape/CD-R scene, Nyoukis has been instrumental in helping artists working to clear a space for original, non-idiomatic sound and feral performance modes. He co-founded the Chocolate Monk label in 1993, based on hi-jacks of outmoded media - cassette, CD-R, pen and paper - and driving those forms to their limits, while also functioning as a home for Nyoukis's own projects, Prick Decay, Decaer Pinga, Ceylon Mange, Blood Stereo and countless one-off collaborations.
Between them both, they have collaborated with artists as diverse as Ludo Mich, Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore, Sun City Girls, Bill Nace, Heather Leigh Murray, Bill Nace, John Wiese, Phil Minton, Neil Campbell, Usurper and Wolf Eyes.
Fuaimbhac - Sound Barriers – is the new sound project of Annemarie Deacy (of Mirakil Whip - her band with Aaron Coyne): planes breaking sound barriers in samples taken from camcorders, filtered through various filters/oscillators, pedals keyboards and d.i.y toys, transistors, illusions. There will also be a short piece on synesthesia. Gryn Brvs will unleash a session of lucid improvised tonal scapers and oscillating drones of mixer feedback. No edits, just pure catharsis. HereHareHere: Primitive & no-fi vocal duet from UK. Awesome free a’capella attack (throat effects, vocal incantation, ...).
To complete this line up,
Distros and label Rimbaud Records and Dot Dot Dot will be present, as well as Paula Larkin who is baking gingerbread cupcakes with lemon buttercream icing, carrot cake cupcakes with creamcheese icing, chocolate fudge raspberry brownies and much more... All cakes are vegan.
This is an early gig!
Doors 7pm-10.30pm
www.myspace.com/solnigeire
Published on: 1 December, 2009
