Cinema TONIGHT at the Slackers Salon / oPeRaTiNg tHeAtRe ....
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Cinema TONIGHT at the Slackers Salon / oPeRaTiNg ThEaTrE ....
INFO-WAR double special:
22:30 - Dial H for History (Johan Grimonprez, 1999)
This film documents the history of political Skyjacking - from the fields of the Bolivia in the 1930s to the Pan-Am accidental 'shooting' of a passenger jet over Iran. Splicing rare documentary footage from the USSR, Kuwait, Japan and the USA, Dial HISTORY probes into the spectacular motifs of terror, suggesting that terrorists are replacing artists as cultural provocateurs.
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23:45 SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM (Craig Baldwin, 1999)
Set in the year 2007 in the blighted desert outpost of Las Vegas, a young telepathic woman ("BooBoo") scavenges for survival on an old bombing range with her father ("Yogi") who is holed up in a cinder-block pirate-TV station, broadcasting rambling diatribes on the impending global electromagnetic 'Pulse'. A solar eclipse gives BooBoo a cosmic opportunity to save the world, through a superluminal voyage back into time to retrieve a secret message left on the airwaves by her scientist grandmother.
With their Airstream trailer converted into a spaceship, the amazed BooBoo is able to catch up with outwardly propagating Fifties' educational-TV broadcasts, affording an accelerated review of mid-century science and science-fiction cinema; and narrating a loose and collage-happy history of heroes and martyrs of the electromagnetic revolution. Commentary on Mesmer, Morse, Bell, Tesla, Farnsworth, and others comes from Yogi and his 'TV Tesla' correspondents, in a playfully speculative effort to trace the growth of corporate hegemony over the electromagnetic spectrum. Through an increasingly abstract montage of live-action, archival film, broadcast video, and 'exploded' interviews, the fantasy narrative warps into disjointed, abstracted, audio-visual phrases, suggesting the breakdown of personal ego/memory, historical representation, and, yes, of spacetime itself.
This science-fiction allegory about 'electromagnetic autonomy' in opposition to the hegemony of the culture-management industry, tracing a history of media technology from its early days to a 21st century "New Electromagnetic Order" that threatens to take total control of our lives.
PLUS
various short films throughout the night: including a short documentary from Genderchangers about the recent ETC...
WHEN: from 22:30 Saturday 30 July WHERE: the Slackers salon / oPeRaTInG tHeAtRe, field E1
