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Thursday, June 22
Admission: $5
Showtimes: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations
are recommended
In the 1920's, artists like Andre Breton, Salvador
Dali and Man Ray mashed bizarre imaginary
happenings with the "real world" on film and called
it surrealism. Today artists use computer generated animation
and recent digital technologies to integrate the physical world
with layers that are much more fantastic. Now we call it augmented
reality, virtual reality or perhaps even magical realism. But
frankly, we’re all getting at the same thing... the seduction
of the dream world and other dark subconscious places is never
going to go out of style as long as human nature still exists.
In the past decade, the structure of the short snappy music video
has not only become fodder for the likes of the commercial MTV
set, but a gold mine for major artists and film directors to work
with - and within - the limitations of the specific structure
of the music video clip. Consequently, many music videos have
begun to look more like an art form reminiscent of the short film
genre than a commercial product.
Likewise, the aesthetics of music videos have thus also begun
to recall a variety of cinematic traditions. The directors in
this compilation of videos unabashedly evoke the dreamscapes and
absurd landscape of 1920’s surrealist film.
presented by Kathleen Forde (EMPAC)
PROLOGUE: (13 minutes)
Entr’acte
Director: René Clair (1924)
MUSIC VIDEO PROGRAM: (60 minutes)
Sky Starts Falling
Music: The Doves
Director: Reuben Sutherland
Courtesy: EMI Records and Joyrider Films
E Pro
Music: Beck
Director: Shynola
Courtesy: The Directors Bureau
Tribulations
Music: LCD Soundsystem
Director: Dougal Wilson
Courtesy: DFA Records and Colonel Blimp
Just Briefly
Music: Daedelus
Director: Dada Kingz
Courtesy: Ninja Tune/Plug Research
Will The Summer Make Good For All of Our Sins?
Music: Múm
Director: Marc Craste
Courtesy: studio aka
Fortress
Music: Pinback
Director: Elliot Jokelson w/ Loyalkaspar
Courtesy: Touch and Go
4 Ton Mantis
Music: Amon Tobin
Director: Floria Sigismondi
Courtesy: Ninja Tune
Human
Music: Carpark North
Director: Martin De Thurah
Courtesy: EMI Denmark
Destroy Everything You Touch
Music: Ladytron
Director: Adam Bartley
Courtesy: Exposure Films, Universal - Island Records and Emperor
Norton Records
Triumph of a Heart
Music: Björk
Director: Spike Jonze
Courtesy: Atlantic Records
What Else is There?
Music: Röyksopp
Director: Martin De Thurah
Courtesy: Wall of Sound and Academy Films
Come to Daddy
Music: Aphex Twin
Director: Chris Cunningham
Courtesy: Warp Records
Rebellion
Music: The Arcade Fire
Director: Chris Grismer
Courtesy: Spy Entertainment
Hayling
Music: FC Kahuna
Director: Lynn Fox
Courtesy: Colonel Blimp
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