Artists' Television Access

Other Cinema; OPTRONICA2: DARK SYNTH (HANS GRUSEL/BRUTALLO + BECKER + HAUNTED BUCHLA +)

Saturday, November 17, 2018, 8:30 pm, $9.99

Back by popular demand, Hans Grusel’sKrankenkabinet now attempts an even darker theme than the Aztec mummies, with their appreciation/appropriation of cultauteurs Doris Wishman (Bad Girls Go to Hell, A Night to Dismember) and Jack Hill(Spider Baby, Mondo Keyhole)…as artfully re-mixed by Brutallo, and as part of this season’s Trash thread. Local electronic ace Thomas Dimuzio graces out gallery (maybe for the first time ever!) to boast to the world of the wonders of the Buchla synthesizerconceived and produced right here in Berkeley by Don Buchla, another Bay Area arts visionary recently passed. Thomas is teaming up with Oakland optical whiz Lori Varga in their 20-min. A Sudden, Haunting Pulse Beneath the ConcreteLori’s four projectors mock up a motion picture miasma of beautiful desolation among urban decay. Opening, Tommy Beckercontinues to pioneer new modes of live-music-video performance, trotting out Stars White in a Blue Field, plus 3 more of his repertoire. Lillian Schwartz’ analog videos serve as stereoscopic interstices between the acts; come early for Sara Bonaventura35mm filmstrips and Pocket Monsters. *$9.99


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