August 22, 2003
Twang
Saturday 8th November Doors 7.30pm
DO NOT MISS
Jonny Crash : It Came From Outer Cunt : Pixelvision : Mounties : Genre Noir
The Horse Hospital is honoured to present TWANG : a performance based act working with film/video and live sound, featuring the stories and films of Pablo Fiasco; performer, and filmmaker. Live voice and laptop soundtrack is provided by Jamie Lidell. Guitar by Mike Denny.
The evening will also feature screenings of film works by PABLO FIASCO, MATT McCORMICK and ARTHUR LIPSETT
TWANG EXPRESS
Twang are a performance based act working with film/video and live sound.
Featuring the stories and films of Pablo Fiasco; performer, and filmmaker. Live voice and laptop soundtrack is provided by Jamie Lidell. Guitar by Mike Denny.
Twang cross the old world with the new…the mythologies of the wild west are ransacked but the tales are of graffiti writers, aliens, -- and a terribly modern world our heroes are poorly suited to live in, but they do it with such enthusiasm, that you can’t help but get caught up in the momentum.
Twang use live cameras, films, and the sharp shooting stories of Pablo Fiasco – who plays Jonny Crash, a lovable rogue who shoots his teacher at the age of 6. The stories twist, turn, and time-travel across fiction, history, mediums and believability.
Freeing the slaves, levitating to California, and avoiding global armaggedon by travelling on a beam of sound are just some of the antics you witness as the Twang posse blindly follow dreams and act out their illusions amidst a list of obstacles and distractions.
genre noir
IT CAME FROM OUTER CUNT
A found footage extravaganza. Made from over two hundred films, this movie splices together hospital soap operas, sex ed films, and science fiction films to hilarious effect. 16mm film becomes a battleground of celluloid surgery; parts are removed and parts replaced. The film itself is scratched, punched, cut, chemicals solvents applied, objects stuck to it:. It literally tries to see how hard you can push film. And it gives you cause to doubt your doctor. 13 minutes 2001
RAZORHEAD
This film was made on the pixelvision 2000 camera; a cult camera for kids created by the Fisher-Price toy company in the early eighties. Pixelvision records audio and video on ordinary audio cassette tapes. It’s style of low resolution is a ghostly grainy B+W image. “Razorhead“ is a fictional autobiography, in the form of a pastiche on the styles and motifs of David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock. 8 minutes 2002.
DIAL ZEE FOR ZEIMER
A real life document where the Mounties don’t get their man. A 15 minute phone call to the RCMP to report a dead body turns into a s bewildering a conversation as you are likely to come across. This call was illegally recorded on a police radio scanning device, and had circulated as an exotic object in the underground punk scene in Vancouver, Canada when Genre Noir came across it. Who is Ernie Ziemer? Humour, horror and mystery. And it’s real. 15 minutes 2002
THE UNCONSCIOUS ART OF GRAFFITI REMOVAL
Matt McCormick made this gently amusing study of those who erase graffiti. Their traits, styles and the meanings behind their obliterating works.
Twp short films by ARTHUR LIPSETT
Arthur Lipsett was an extraordinary filmmaker and visionary, who was employed along with Norman MacLaren in the 1960s by the National Film Board of Canada. His first film “Very Nice, Very Nice” won an academy award in 1961, and he was asked by Stanley Kubrick to create the trailer for Dr. Strangelove. He made several more films for the National Filmboard before they terminated his contract. He never recovered from what he saw as an act of betrayal by his former employer, and took his own life some years later.
posted by James on August 22, 2003 04:54 PM