This evening of entertainment showcases our treasured local talent: Original songs, bad covers, absurd animations, artsy fartsy films, performance ‘art,’ tasty snacks and cheap drinks! Raucous laughter abounds!
Featuring:
Hazy Loper
Cookie Tongue
Ivy Anderson
Bochay
+ Special Guests !!!
On Friday, ATA hosted the kind of free-form film and music collaboration that makes a viewer feel like there are small and wonderful programs playing in all the tiny venues across the city; one step through the unmarked door of a dusty storefront sends a wanderer into an uncynical urban bohemia where young artists push against the boundaries of new form. Not so– Her Tail Was Cut in Two was a rare and singular event, a junction of understated talent. Sorry if you missed it.
Chris Lynn opened the program with three wide, still films, loosely connected to the subject of water. Atracados- Moored by Filipe Afonso sets two boys at a harbor. Their discussion, in Portuguese, references a story and a life beyond the screen– will they leave home? One recounts a dream in which he walked into the sea. The acting is opaque. Their backs face the camera and the world is beautiful in its indifference at sunset.
Lynn’s film follows. Snow gathers on the wings of an airplane before it pierces the clouds. Then, Ann Deborah Levy’s camera rests on the surface of still water. Trees shimmer. These films are made in a lovely, uncaring world.
Janel Leppin follows; frantic plucking of the cello’s strings makes mixes with Gino Robair’s idiosyncratic compositions– out of the mixer board, we hear electronic echoes of dripping water. Janel’s voice rises, ethereal over the sound boards. She is on the floor, singing into her pedal board, while Cyrus Yoshi Tabar’s green apocalyptic clouds billow onto the projection screen, then scratch away. The voice is the warmth in the program, piercing all the carefully framed surfaces. She breaks everything open. And, the humming of the bow over the cello strings sews it together again.
Presented by Cyrus Yoshi Tabar and Janel Leppin
Cyrus Yoshi Tabar will join Janel for a live presentation of video works.
Chris Lynn will be curating short films to present with the theme of water
Avant-garde cellist Janel Leppin crosses genre boundaries in her live performance work, Her Tail Was Cut in Two. Adapting her sound with electronics, Leppin winds through a variety of territories, showing where she has been in her extensive musical training as well as where she is going. The suite brings out her versatile interests in which she composes for analog equipment, alongside acoustic and electric instruments, to create soundscapes interwoven with jagged contemporary jaunts and turntable collage, dream-pop vocal works, Persian classical glimpses, and psychedelic reveries.
Chris H. Lynn is a filmmaker, sound artist, educator, and curator. His digital images and super 8 films capture the subtle rhythms of light, movement, and sound in urban and rural landscapes. His work has been screened in a variety of venues including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, the BFI in London, England, and the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. In addition, the International Streaming Festival in the Netherlands have added a number of his films to their permanent collection. His sound work consists of field recordings, minimal compositions, and audio from his films. His work has been released on various net labels and featured on Framework radio. Chris also curates the Experimental Film Program “Urban/Rural Landscapes” for the Utopia Film Festival in Greenbelt, Md and has curated the Takoma Park Experimental film festival in Maryland 2010. He also has programed films for Sonic Circuits monthly showcase at Pyramid Atlantic Gallery in Silver Spring, Md.
blog-http://framingsounds.com/