Ghost Tracks:
An evening with ZimmerFrei

Monday, February 9
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8:30pm
reservations are recommended

ZimmerFrei is a collective of artists (Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor, Anna Rispoli) whose complex practice is located on the crossways of cinema, theater, music and performance. Mixing formal languages, the group produces kaleidoscopic sonic and visual works that investigate real and imaginary landscapes.

They will present a special screening with live soundtrack of their latest video works:

The Panorama Series (2004/2005) -
(with live soundtrack by Massimo Carozzi)

The circular panoramas in these videos were filmed in different Italian squares (Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Piazza Maggiore in Bologna) and record a series of actions filmed in the space of a few hours and sped up in editing to last a few minute only. On the one hand there are weather and light changes, days shifting into nights and nights into days, passers-by walking in front of the lens. On the other are staged actions, performed slowly enough to be fully recorded by the camera. Rather than actions they are proper happenings, to which the artists take part, as well as other performers and the unaware audience. The time alteration, the gap between two dimensions that come into conflict - namely the natural flow of time and the artificial time of the many small events and narrations created by the actions of the performers – is in fact a common feature of ZimmerFrei's aesthetics. In those experiments different expressive modes come together and become one whole: from painting...to cinema (besides landscape painting, it is also mainly experimental films' technique of time lapse), from theatre to dance (a stylized narration of gestures and movements) till contemporary music (sounds, words and noises form an additional narrative level)

Why We Came (2006)

Why we Came intends to rediscover the desert, the vastness of empty spaces; it establishes a "mineral" relation with nature and with every aspect of what is hanging over humans: accelerated big skies, virgin spaces, geology.
Some figure try to leave a trace, but the everchanging landscape re-establish a hierarchy of the permanent: "Time seems to pass, the world happens"

Ghost Track (2008)

Ghost Track is a videoinstallation in three chapters that offers a phantom-like journey through Europe and its geopolitical landscape, while using the charismatic, acoustic power of the soundtracks from classical films, by Hitchcock and Coppola through Scott, Chereau, Ferrara and Von Trier.

Presente Continuo (2003)
Lost Highway by David Lynch has been decomposed in 81 sequences played in loop in 81 small rectangles.
All the sequences run at the same time on the screen: the whole film is visible at a glance. It is 'readable' from left to right in his complete running time or visible in his totality in a 'continuous present'.

http://www.zimmerfrei.co.it
http://www.zimmerfrei.co.it/ZimmerFrei/Panorama_Roma.html