Friday,
March 11 ~ Sunday, March 13
Film
@ International House and VJ Large Marge present
Films
With Live Soundtracks - A weekend of films with Live Scores
by Local Musicians
There
has always been an interesting world of the relationship between
music and film. Over the past decade, there has been a new trend
of musicians creating new scores to existing films. The history
has taken us from the questionable revised soundtrack of the
late 80’s version of Metropolis, (with songs by Queen)
to the beautifully revised version of Text Of Light,
a live soundtrack composed by Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth) and
others, performing along with the films of Stan Brakhage. Films
With Live Soundtracks is the result of a local musicians being
asked to choose a film that they loved, and then creating a
new live soundtrack. The results are a weekend of local musicians
taking us into the musical realms of Electronica, Indie Rock,
Long-Form Experimental Improvisation and Cinematic Techno. The
films include B-Movies, Surrealist stop motion, Psychedelia,
and of course musical puppets.
Friday,
March 11 at 7:00pm
Invocation
of My Demon Brother
dir.
Kenneth Anger, USA, 1969, 35mm, 12 mins, color
Experimental
short, featuring strobe-like homoerotic imagery, interspersed
with the Rolling Stones in performance.
Live
soundtrack by DJ Robotrake improvising his own Techno based
songs.
Alice
dir.
Jan Svankmajer, Czechoslovakia/Switzerland/UK/West
Germany, 1988,
35mm, 86 mins, color
 A
memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll's Alice
in Wonderland, mixing one live actor (Alice) with a huge
variety of sinister animated puppets, ranging from the complex
(the White Rabbit) to the incredibly simple (the Caterpillar,
consisting of a sock, a couple of glass eyes and
a
pair of false teeth).
Soundtrack
by Autopoiesis, a collective that uses piano, electronics, vocals,
and percussion to create long-form
improvisational pieces.
Saturday,
March 12 at 2:00pm (family matinee) and 8:00pm
Spiral
Q’s Handmade Film Series presents
The
Muppet Movie Sing-a-Long 2
dir.
James Frawley, USA, 1979, video, 95 mins, color
 Kermit
the Frog wants fame. Persuaded by an agent to pursue acting,
he hops west to Hollywood. Tagging along are Fozzie, Miss Piggy,
Gonzo, and a motley group of Muppets help dodge evil Doc Hopper
and a cameo-filled cast on the trek to Tinsletown! Soundtrack
as audience sings a-long! The soundtrack features such classics
such as “The Rainbow Connection” and “Can You Picture That”.
A fundraiser for Spiral Q Puppet Theater.
Sunday,
March 13 at 5:00pm
Kustom
Kar Kamandos
dir.
Kenneth Anger, USA, 1965, 3 mins, color
From
the mind of Kenneth Anger… buff men washing cars.
Puce
Moment
dir.
Kenneth Anger, USA, 1949, 6 mins,
color
A
woman with her dancing dresses walks her dog.
Soundtrack
by Doctor and Philip, an experimental psychedelic Americana
band in the grand tradition of The Incredible String Band and
The Velvet Underground.
Invaders
from Mars
dir.
William Cameron Menzies, USA, 1953, video, 78 mins, color
All
the adults in a small town begin acting strangely shortly after
a young boy sees odd lights settling near the hills. A 60’s
space classic.
Soundtrack
by David First (of the Notekillers), known for his dense, mesmerizing
drone structures. First has been a pivotal figure in the world
of experimental music. His band, The Notekillers, were cited
by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore as one of bands major influences.
He will be playing a set of Electronic Music with a laptop and
guitar.
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