INTERNATIONAL / UT COMPETITION / EYE+EAR:
STARTERS AND ALTERNATORS
Behind, under, over and hiding from the music. And that's just the audience.
Sept. 20| 6:00 pm | The Hideout (downstairs theater)
Gogol Bordello
U.S.A. 9:56 16mm
Dir: Micah Perta
‘"What name could be more gogol bordello than Gogol Bordello?" What could be cooler than this immigrant-punk-gypsy-hybrid band? A document of music that is truly old and, at the same time, truly new. - J.H.
Well Well Well
U.S.A. 3:00 video
Dir: Elisabeth Subrin Music: Le Tigre
Like pretending to take a smoke break so you can scarf a box of pop rocks on the sly, Elisabeth Subrin and Le Tigre's synth-candy, split-screen ode to the secret erotics of office supplies makes for a giddy escape into nostalgic juvenilia and playful anti-professionalism for when you've grown tired of just giving casual Friday the finger. - S.P.
DTs: Video for A Roman Scandal
U.S.A. 4:00 video
DIR Jackie PassmorE, Cathy Shive, Michael Connor
A modernist take on executive aesthetic: corporate office workers are caught in the dance of the everyday in this elegy to cubicle culture, You’ll be talking about this one at the water cooler. DTs was commissioned by Austin-based synth-pop/electronic group A Roman Scandal.
Beautiful Frenzy
The Netherlands 52:00 video
Dir: Christina Hallstrom, Mandra Waback
Following the Ex on tour through squats, clubs and festivals throughout Europe and the US, as well as at home and in rehearsal, this documentary reveals the personalities and politics of the oldest independent band in the Netherlands, treating us to plenty of the spontaneity, raw force and honed skill that fuel their unstoppable live performances. - S.P.
i'm simply overwhelmed, i just don’t know what to say, thank you all very much, good night.
U.S.A. 21:00 video
DIR Roddy Bogawa
“[The closed crowd] establishes itself by accepting its limitation.”–Elias Canetti. Bogawa’s lifted proscenium-eye views of rock audiences from The Beatles to Sonic Youth offer an anthology of startling sameness in the expressions, gestures and bodily figurations of stadium-rock spectatorship. More than an exercise in the aesthetics of banality, the work scans for integrity in the swaying dimensions of the closed crowd. - S.A.
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