Brent Green’s adamantly hand-made animated films- which have screened at Sundance, the Getty Museum, Hammer Museum, Walker Arts Center, Bellwether Gallery and the IFC Center- will be shown with live improvised soundtracks. Brent has worked with the likes of Califone and Vic Chesnutt. The New York Times called Green’s films “some of the most original animations we have seen in years.” www.nervousfilms.com
Brian De Graw (Gang Gang Dance / Brown Sounds) “Retina Riddim” 33 minutes 3 seconds of eye splitting edits, original score with images of riots, cops, and random pretty dirty things.
Ecstatic Peace : Thurston Moore’s record label, Films by Andrew Kesin. A Quad screen installation of edits from all different bands from the experimental music label with MagiK Markers to Pauline Oliveros, candid shots of Thurston interviewing artists, studio visits, in a montage of tweaky harsh noyze to pretty sunglinty strums.
Takeshi Murata: His art video of pixelated manuevers have reworked footage of Mario Bava’s Italian horror classic The Bride of Satan into a dreamlike sequence of toxicity. His new work “Pink Dot” has exciting blips of droned out colors, and puts Rambo in a whole new light.
OOIOO new videos from new album TAIGA. OOIOO is Yoshimi’s side project from iconic noise rock band, Boredoms. A feast of all female psych on the eyes and ears. Forest and UMA videos, a complete cleanse of the senses!
Bacchanale is a “lost” adult arthouse film from 1970, released towards the end of the grindhouse era and at the dawn of XXX.
The (surprisingly enlightened) sex in this film is overwhelmed by a script chock full of low-budget surrealistic pretensions. This creative tact was originally designed to provide enough of a veneer of artistic merit to keep the censorship boards at bay. With the passage of time, it now can be seen as a piece in full dialog with the cinematic trends of the day, maybe a grimy Seventh Seal, a gutter-dwelling Satiricon or outsider artist Rosemary’s Baby. Too kind? You be the judge. Shot in several (but not all) colors, and concerning fashion, dreams, death, discos, calliopes, spiral staircases, water, war, hell, and, of course, sex. Directed by John and Lem Amero, starring Uta Erickson, inserts by Harry Reems and Tina Russell. New audio curated by Sam Zimmerman, Nick Hallett and Montgomery Knott. Additional film edits by Sam Zimmerman.
For this screening, Monkey Town has taken the liberty of inviting 50 audio artists to reinterpret the film (which is currently out of commercial release). The result experience is an era-bending megamix of illicit thrills.