AF and Alt.Music Festival in collaboration with the Telecom 39th
Auckland International Film Festival presents La Cellule
d'Intervention Metamkine from Grenoble, France is a live expanded-
cinema group made up of musicians and filmmakers.
La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine and Plains with moving image work
by Michael Morley
$19.50, Saturday July 14, 2007, doors 7pm, starts 8pm
Tickets from Ticketek - service fees will apply
Kenneth Myers Centre, The University of Auckland, 74 Shortland
Street, Auckland
Free workshop with Metamkine’s Jerome Noetinger, Kenneth Myers
Centre, Saturday July 14, 4pm
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La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine
Metamkine produces and directs a new film with each thrilling and
spontaneous performance. These highly articulate improvisations push
the boundaries of film and soundtrack into the realm of live
performance.
Projectionists Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel perform live on
multiple 16mm projectors; they apply chemicals to their films on
stage, play with film speed and filters, and scratch directly onto
celluloid to stunning effect. Jérôme Noetinger performs live musique
concréte in a similar analogue fashion. Utilising reel-to-reel tape
recorders and vintage synthesizers, the trio engage in an entirely
real-time invention. They create a unity of sound and image,
immersing the audience in a rich display of unusual diffusion and
refraction techniques and compelling sound-collage.
Metamkine remain deeply purist in their approach to the immediacy and
tactility of analogue film and sound techniques. For 20 years the
Metamkine project has expanded on the tradition of experimental
cinema and celluloid reverie. They could be described as successors
to the early experimental cinema lineage of Walter Ruttmann, Isodore
Isou, Guy Debord, Stan Brakhage, Len Lye et al, through to Fluxus
Film and Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable happenings.
Metamkine’s performances revel in the undeniable beauty and depth of
real-time projected film, sound and light. This show should not be
missed by those with even a passing interest in avant-garde cinema.
Michael Morley Reason
35 minute, digital video, colour, 16.9
In collaboration with Plains
Auckland electronic supergroup Plains comprised of Rosy Parlane,
Richard Francis, Clinton Watkins, Paul Winstanley, Tim Coster and
special guest Dean Roberts will also be performing and working in
collaboration with a moving image work by Dunedin-based artist
Michael Morley (Dead C/Gate). Morley has been making video works
since 1990. Non-narrative and experimental, these are often
meditations on a subject, removed from real-time constraints and
suspended within a timeframe of its own making. Reason was conceived
as a response to the video game aesthetic, the romantic painted
landscape where possibilities for disaster are commonplace and
frequently catastrophic. North Otago is emblematic of New Zealand art
history; as landscape it is one of the characters within Reason.
[Metamkine’s] work ethic is a far cry from the trendy multi-art
events that are currently mushrooming in the capitals of Europe … The
performances were an inspiring and frequently chaotic mix of
acoustic, electronic and electroacoustic elements, an aural and
visual celebration that even included some live sampling - of the
group itself - by Noetinger, demonstrating that analogue and digital
techniques can be complementary. As Noetinger puts it: "We have to
move beyond this opposition between analogue and digital. The
important thing is the music, not where it's coming from."
Rahma Khazam, The Wire 157, March 1997.
“I believe firstly that the cinema is too rich. It is obese. It has
reached its limits, its maximum. With the first movement of widening
which it will outline, the cinema will burst! Under the blow of a
congestion, this greased pig will tear into a thousand pieces. I
announce the destruction of the cinema, the first apocalyptic sign of
disjunction, of rupture, of this corpulent and bloated organization
which calls itself film.”
Letterist filmmaker Isodore Isou, 1950
http://metamkine.free.fr
http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/met.html
Metamkine’s Alt.music appearance is supported by Creative New
Zealand, The University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative
Arts and Industries, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Liquid Architecture,
Room40 and Telecom 39th Auckland International Film Festival.
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