Date: 25 November 2000 | Season: Soundtracking 2000
TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT: THE NOISE OF CINEMA
Saturday 25 October 2000, at 9pm
Sheffield Showroom
Experimental and easy music played by DJ’s Mark Webber and Gregory Kurcewicz plus informal screenings of film with experimental music and noise soundtracks.
Takahiko Iimura, Shutter, 1971, USA, b/w, sound, 25 min
Guy Sherwin, Soundtrack, 1977, UK, b/w, sound, 9 min
John Latham, Speak, 1968-69, UK, colour, sound, 11 min
Peter Gidal, Focus, 1971, UK, b/w, sound, 10 min
Stan Brakhage, Desistfilm, 1954, USA, b/w, sound, 7 min
Paul Sharits, Ray Gun Virus, 1966, USA, colour, sound, 14 min
Kenneth Anger, Invocation of My Demon Brother, 1969, USA, colour, sound, 12 min
Ernie Gehr, Reverberation, 1969, USA, b/w, sound-on-tape, 23 min (16fps)
Standish Lawder, Raindance, 1970, USA, colour, sound, 16 min
Bruce Conner, Crossroads, USA, 1976, USA, b/w, sound, 36 min
Part of the Soundtracking festival at Sheffield Showroom.
Date: 26 November 2000 | Season: Soundtracking 2000
THE SHADOW OF THE FACTORY
Sunday 26 October 2000, at 9pm
Sheffield Showroom
Programme of short films featuring Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground and others from the silver Factory and New York arts community.
Jack Smith, Scotch Tape, 1959-62, USA, colour, sound, 2 min
Jack Smith’s first film, shot in a rubbish dumb, music assembled by Tony Conrad
Piero Heliczer, The Soap Opera, c.1964, USA, b/w, silent, 13 min
Evocative document of the Lower East Side artists includes Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, John Cale and others
Jonas Mekas, Award Presentation To Andy Warhol, 1964, USA, b/w, sound, 12 min
Jonas Mekas presents the Film Culture award to Warhol and his Factory gang
Andrew Meyer, Match Girl, 1966, USA, b/w & colour, sound, 26 min
Shot in the Factory and including some original Warhol Screen Tests
Keewatin Dewdney, Malanga, 1967, Canada, b/w, sound, 3 min
Stroboscopic cuts between Malanga reading poetry and dancing to the Velvet Underground
Ron Nameth, Warhol’s E.P.I., 1967, USA, colour, sound, 22 min
Kinetic film of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable concerts, with Velvet Underground soundtrack
Stephen Shore & Gerard Malanga, Frozen Warnings, 1990, USA, b/w, sound, 4 min (videotape)
Promotional video for the reissue of the Nico “Marble Index” CD
Part of the Soundtracking festival at Sheffield Showroom.
