Via: nat muller
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9 September | 18.00 h, 20.00 h, 22.00 h
Cinema Libanon: Charity Screening
Entrance: euro 10,- | combination ticket euro 25,-
Location: De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam
URL: www. balie.nl
With introductions by Pierre Sarraf (director Né à Beyrouth)
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Lebanon, and more specifically Beirut, still conjure two very
dichotomous and cliché images in the West: either the lamented former
glory of the pearl of the Middle East, or the atrocities of a 15-year
protracted civil war. With the media saturation of the recent war
between Israel and Hizbullah still fresh, and the shaky promise of a
brittle ceasefire, Lebanon once again risks to fall prey to
stereotyping. In defiance of the war and in solidarity with the
humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, De Balie organises an evening of films,
documentaries and videos by Lebanese makers, in collaboration with the
Lebanese production house and film festival Né à Beyrouth.
The selection of films are testimony to the resistance of Lebanese
artists to a historical and cultural amnesia, and show that being
rooted in contemporary Lebanon is as much a commemoration of an untold
past, as it is a reflection on and of the present.
With thanks to: Pierre Sarraf (Né à Beyrouth), Joanna Hadjithomas &
Khalil Joreige, Celluloid Dreams, Akram Zaatari, and other
participating artists.
Ticket sale donated to humantiarian relief causes in Lebanon.
_PROGRAM DETAILS_
BLOCK 1: 18.00 h
"Ce sera beau, from Beirut with love" Wael Nouredinne, 30min, 2005
(16mm)
From Beirut – with Love:. A cinematic postcard greeting, so bitter and
cynical, it can only come from a city being at war with itself.
"In this house", Akram Zaatari, 30 min, 2004 (video)
At the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1991, Ali, a member of the
Lebanese resistance, wrote a letter to the owners of the house his
group had occupied for six years. In November 2002, Akram Zaatari took
his video camera and headed to this family’s village in Ain al-Mir to
dig up Ali’s letter.
Improvised shorts – reflections on the recent war by Joanna Hadjithomas
& Khalil Joreige, Akram Zaatari, Michel Kammoun, Hani Tamba, and Ziad
Antar.
BLOCK 2: 20.00 h
"Meshwar" 26 min, Ziad Antar & Marc Casal Liotier 2005 (DV cam)
The assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Harari in February
2005, and the instable security situation in Lebanon, has brought back
memories of the civil war.
“All is well on the border", 43 min, Akram Zaatari (video)
Issues of representation within the occupied zone of South Lebanon are
explored in this documentary. The film’s three staged interviews with
Lebanese prisoners in Israel illustrate aspects of life under
occupation with convincing poignancy. Zaatari uses the interview format
as a tribute to French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s Here And Elsewhere,
which probed images of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in South
Lebanon 20 years earlier.
BLOCK 3: 22.00 h
"My friend Imad and the Taxi", 19 min, Olga Nakkas/Hassan Zbib, Lebanon
(1985 and 2005)
In 1985, Hassan Zbib and Olga Nakkas separately started to develop film
scenarios based on simple narratives. Their work took Beirut as a stage
where lonely characters drifted: a taxi driver in his car, a man
walking around and talking to a Rambo poster. These films were never
presented as finalized works until a Beirut-based festival, Né à
Beyrouth, spotted them and asked the filmmakers to present their films
with live electronic music.
"A Perfect Day", 88min, Khalil Joreige en Joanna Hadjithomas, 2005
Stuck in a traffic jam, Malek catches a glance of Zeina, the woman he
loves. His mother Claudia has still not accepted his father’s
disappearance after 15 years. She stays at home should her husband
return, Malek drives around the city alone in his car. Each of them
living with a void of lost love.
Via: "Image Science"
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SCALD "Vermiculatus"
Code666
http://www.code666.net/
Vermiculatus is Scald's most experimental, innovative and un-commercial
project to date. The work consists of a singular album length instrumental
track, the first section of which is performed by the band and is a complex
composition of no repeated parts, followed by the closing section, which is
an ambient reconstruction of the performance part. This is accompanied on
the CD-rom track by a short animated film (Vermiculatus B1) with a further
reconstructed soundtrack, an integral facet to the work and concept as a
whole.
Scald are not known for being free with explanations behind their concepts
but it can be stated that the on-going conceptual, metaphorical
representations of the parasitic worm as psychological states has been
further evolved from the 'Nematoid' & 'Headworm' material. Without the use
of words or human voice these emotional and neurological conditions must be
conveyed through the aural and visual stimulus of the Vermiculatus whole. It
is not necessary to understand, only to be aware.
"SCALD's abolition world-codemaniacs of the terror fear cytoplasm that was
send back out to the insanity medium of the hyperreal HIV scanners DNA
channel of the corpse city technojunkies' era respiration-byte to
non-resettable mass of flesh-module. Vermiculatus turn on the feeling
replicant living body junk of SCALD's digital vamp cold-blooded disease
animals to the corpse feti streaming circuits of the biocapturism nerve
cells that compressed the acidHUMANIX infectious disease of a clone boy
ill-treatment. SCALD FUCKNAMLOAD the paradise apparatus of the human body
pill cruel emulator to the brain universe of the hybrid corpse mechanism
gene-dub of a chemical anthropoid murder-gimmick of the soul/gram made of
retro-ADAM. Vermiculatus aspirate the paradise apparatus of the human body
pill cruel emulator corpse feti streaming of the soul/gram made of
retro-ADAM to the abolition world-codemaniacs that was processed the data
mutant of SCALD's ultra machinary tragedy-ROM creature system acid.
Reptilian HUB modem that crashed a chemical anthropoid SCALD install the
terror fear cytoplasm that covered cardiac gene-dub of the drug fetus of the
trash sense to that mass of flesh-module with the era respiration-byte.
SCALD's brain universe of the hyperreal HIV scanner form murder game of the
dogs of tera to the acidHUMANIX infectious disease archive of the
biocapturism nerve cells nightmare-script of a clone boy to non-resettable
noise. SCALD's terror fear cytoplasm gene-dub of the drug fetus of the trash
sense to the acidHUMANIX infectious disease archive of the biocapturism
nerve cells nightmare-script of a clone boy corpse feti streaming. SCALD
plug-in the paradise apparatus of the human body pill cruel emulator mass of
flesh-module of the hybrid corpse mechanism that was send back out the era
respiration-byte of a chemical anthropoid murder-gimmick of the soul/gram
made of retro-ADAM. Vermiculatus turn on ill-treatment to the insanity
medium of the hyperreal HIV scanners feeling replicant living body junk of
SCALD's digital vamp cold-blooded disease animals DNA channel of the corpse
city." - Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric
Tracklist:
The Vermiculatus album is a single instrumental track with a running time of
47:28.
http://www.vermiculatus.me.uk/
Via: "kenjisiratori.com"
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SPIES under VON MAGNET influence
"Shape Your Shade" EP
Cinetiks
http://www.cinetiks.com/
"travelling to the confines of your dreams" (sonic energy)
"eclectic...with a bent for post-modernism" (psynews)
"futuristic edge...mutant and hybrid sonic object" (coda)
"magnificient" (connexion bizarre)
Aka Spies, Holeg Spies, Spies under Von Magnet influence(with Von Magnet),
Crossfinger (with Phlrx)
For more than 10 years, Holeg has been performing on the international
electronic-music scene. Based in France, he is known and respected for his
hybrid style giving him the capability to get through several musical scenes
such as techno, electro, indus, ambiant, electronica-ethnic, psy-trance
Remixer for Anne Clark, Implant, Von Magnet, Mimetic, Kris Kylven, BakXIII
and audio-visual remixer for Japanese cyberpunk writer Kenji Siratori, the
famous Mike Takashi's movie « Ichi the Killer » which was awarded at the
Rotterdam movie festival.
"SPIES under VON MAGNET influence's paradise apparatus of the human body
pill cruel emulator that compressed the acidHUMANIX infectious disease of
the soul/gram made of retro-ADAM to the brain universe of the hybrid corpse
mechanism gene-dub of a chemical anthropoid guerrilla. Hunting for the
grotesque WEB feeling replicant living body junk of SPIES under VON MAGNET
influence's digital vamp cold-blooded disease animals to the murder-protocol
of the biocapturism nerve cells reptilian HUB of a clone boy Shape Your
Shade joint. SPIES under VON MAGNET influence aspirate the terror abolition
world-codemaniacs tera of dogs to the mass of flesh-module of the hyperreal
HIV scanner form that was debugged hacking the drug fetus of the trash sense
acid. Shape Your Shade, the abolition world-codemaniacs that was processed
to the terror fear cytoplasm gene-dub of the drug fetus of the trash sense
data mutant of SPIES under VON MAGNET influence's ultra machinary
tragedy-ROM creature system corpse feti streaming. Reptilian HUB modem that
crashed a chemical anthropoid SPIES under VON MAGNET influence are covered
cardiac paradise apparatus of the human body pill cruel emulator
murder-gimmick of the soul/gram made of retro-ADAM mass of flesh-module to
install. SPIES under VON MAGNET influence SAVE the brain universe of the
hyperreal HIV scanner form murder game of the dogs of tera to the
acidHUMANIX infectious disease archive of the biocapturism nerve cells
nightmare-script of a clone boy. SPIES under VON MAGNET influence's
abolition world-codemaniacs of the terror fear cytoplasm that was send back
out to the insanity medium of the hyperreal HIV scanners DNA channel of the
corpse city technojunkies' era respiration-byte mass of flesh-module.
Hunting for the grotesque WEB surrender-site of the living body junk feeling
replicant where turned on the ill-treatment of a chemical anthropoid to the
corpse feti streaming circuits of the biocapturism nerve cells that
compressed the acidHUMANIX infectious disease of a clone boy SPIES under VON
MAGNET influence joint. SPIES under VON MAGNET influence's paradise
apparatus of the human body pill cruel emulator trash sense of drug fetus to
the ultra machinary tragedy-ROM creature system that was debugged the
murder-gimmick of the soul/gram made of retro-ADAM reptilian HUB." - Kenji
Siratori, author of Blood Electric
Tracklist:
1 - fragments of ice - fire of illusions
2 - the passenger
3 - a cosmic operator
4 - nostalghian'shape
http://www.spies.tv/