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This collection of videos somehow came together by itself rather than being a result of a pre-defined concept. They all somehow happen to explore certain heavily romantic moods and subjects. Nostagia, melancholy, romance, mystery and death. Their tempo is slow, but hypnotizing. The artists’ choice of subject is not restricted to local themes, they choose reference points understandable for audience anywhere in the world. After all, moving images are an international language.

Short film Mary (2000) by Daniel Pitin is inspired by real events from 1914, when souffragette Mary Richardson, cut up painting Venus with the Mirror by Velasquez at the London National Gallery. Fake silent movie, grothesque and surreal parody, is accompanied with score of Griffith’s Intolerance.

Michal Pechoucek is already an established video artist with a unique vision. His captivating movies made often of slowly moving images bear a trademark of returning back to bleak seventies in socialist Czechslovakia. Pram Room (2004) explores mysteries of vacant rooms typical for the concrete ghettos in all formerly socialist countries accompanied an by industrial soundtrack. Some of those mysteries may be very creepy.

Black Angel (2005) by Radim Labuda (that’s me) is an ambient remix of a randomly shot urban scene. Deserted scenery of an underground station becomes witness of a mysterious apparition of a fragile otherworldly creature with an accordion.

Mark Ther’s beautifully shot filmic narrative Small Blonde with his Red Suitcase (2005) is generously colourful nostalgic reverie, supposedly based on a story from a randomly found scrap of paper. Pathos of the romantic soundtrack rolls in waves across the daydreaming of two women in a rich baroque room, pondering on a mystery of a small blonde boy with a red suitcase.

Fake documentary about Marilyn Monroe by Sylva Malova titled Shakespearean Actress (2004) balances between reality and fiction in search of small private fragments of the big story. These are acted out by fictional characters. The illusion is almost seamless, you can only guess by small details if the footge is new or original. Malova’s fiction delivers yet another misleading view into our mass media drenched world. I’m very curious, if her reconstruction can be convincing even for american audience.

I could say come and grab a czech beer, but beer is not what this collection should be enjoyed with. I recon it goes best with red wine.

Radim Labuda

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In late 1908 Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his “Requiem For a Friend”over two fevered nights at the Hotel Biron in Paris. A hundred years later a paratheatre group in Berkeley California prepares to stage his “Requiem”as a performance ritual.  Time dissolves as impressions of the contemporary era begin haunting Rilke’s night dreams and consequently, inspiring the creative processes of writing this tribute to his friend, the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who unexpectedly died eighteen days after birthing her first child.  “The Greater Circulation” is a cinematic treatment of Rilke’s powerful prose addressing the central drama of all women who feel torn between sacrificing their lives to their Art or to Motherhood. 2005; 93 min. USA, shot on equal parts HD video and super 8 film.

film clip:
http://fractalvideo.com/HTML/TGCFV.html

link to filmthreat.com review
http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=8150

about the filmmaker

Antero Alli is a Berkeley-based underground filmmaker with seven features to his credit including “Hysteria”, “Tragos” and “Under a Shipwrecked Moon”.  He is also director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch, a group of ritualists and performers dedicated to asocial ritual dynamics. Read his vision statement at:
http://www.verticalpool.com/aavision1.html

ATA presents an evening of blistering yet lovely BrutalSFX noise with a solo set of noise guitar from Leavenworth’s Daniel Hintz. Also appearing are acclaimed noise artists Oscillating Innards and Xome.

Daniel Hintz (a.k.a. Cactus), is a writer, guitarist, and radio d.j., based in San Francisco. Hintz, was born November 2, 1964, in San Francisco. He grew up in California and later Wisconsin, and began playing music in bands in Milwaukee in 1981. Most of Hintz’s older DIY recordings are now long out-of-print, and even back then were initially only circulated in small batches of anywhere from 25-1,000 copies, owing to their decidedly non-commercial and typically lo-fi nature. Several new recordings of Hintz’s more recent noisy and droning and sometimes violent experimental guitar works are currently in production, and are slated for release in 2005.

Xome is a harsh noise music project conceived and operated by Bob Scott. Xome first started experimenting with dissonant forms of music in 1989 but the first organized live performance in Tokyo in 1994 marks the true activation of the project. Now based in San Francisco, Xome has evolved into a highly refined and extremely harsh noise music unit by means of improvised manipulation of sound processing equipment. Past Xome performances have shared the same bill with artists such as Incapacitants, C.C.C.C., Killer Bug, Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, Seiichi Yamamoto, (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba), Violent Onsen Geisha, Pain Jerk, Death Squad, Government Alpha, TV Pow, Daniel Menche, Kazumoto Endo, K2, Emil Beaulieau, Melt Banana, MSBR, Stimbox, Prurient, Thomas Dimuzio, Cock E.S.P., Pedestrian Deposit, Black Leather Jesus, T.E.F., Sickness, Pop Culture Rape Victim, Vertonen, Guilty Connector and many, many more.