FREAK FILM COMES BACK TO THE BUSH
There is a sweet, sweet outdoor cinema at the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre, in a magical grove of manna gums, with the natural canopy high overhead just sparse enough for the twinkling stars to shine through. Whats showing? That would be stuff that turned left at the lights, planted the foot and ripped the rear view mirror off, and then ate it.
It's called the Ecoplex Cinema, and will be at the edge of Bush Camping, in the area known as “Africa”. It consists of a giant 6m x 6m screen purpose built between two ancient eucalypts, a six-speaker Super-Sonorama surround audio experience (which when coupled with Ultravision 3D effects and glasses will REALLY put you in the picture), and the action will be projected by vintage 16mm gear out of a 1978 Jayco SuperTourer Caravan (with annex).
Heres what the Lumpen Intelligentsia Posse – who operate it – have in store for Golden Plains:
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE INNAUGURAL GOLDEN PLAINS
IN OPTICALLY ENHANCED ULTRAVISION!!!
Only ULTRAVISION with SUPER-SONORAMA provides you that “you-are-in-the-middle-of-it-all” effect... Accept no substitutes!
(not available in indoor hardtop -type cinemas - exclusive to the Meredith Ecoplex...)
We swim the sewers of cinema now-and-past, to salvage unfamiliar objects of wonder and delight. Join us at the Ecoplex as we celebrate both new and misremembered (and damn strange – of course) instruments of celluloid enchantment…
Expanded Cinema by Trans-Tasman Renegades
Sam Hamilton & Eve Gordon (NZ), “Light-mantled sooty albatross”
4 modified film projectors/1 destroyed guitar/2 good humans... NZ champions of creative cinema preside over the marriage of abstract sound & image: marmite abstractions conceived in the shadow of a searchlight sweep. Veterans of collaborative activities with the likes of Damo Suzuki & the Tall Dwarfs, organisers of the Auckland International Film Festival’s fps program, Golden Plains Festival guests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-1VLf_Q2E
Fun Fur Freakshow via wayback machine
Jump the time tunnel, and return with us to the land of talking odd-socks... a kinder, gentler world, where Mr. Hooper still sweeps the sidewalk... noone knows what a Snuffleupaguss looks like... and that pill-popping imposter Elmo is yet to ruin the whole suburb. Our most complete survey yet of halcyon-eraSesame Street finally lifts the lid on the fate of that faceless uncle & his crew of ‘anything people’! Bert clues you the expert smarts on how to strut yo funky self (I mean, unnh: “doing The Pigeon”). And a shipload more of old-school tunes, japes and anarchic capers – embellished by animation from North America’s finest independent cartoonists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZy9FBDnNac
& plus of:
The Electric Company
Early ‘70s ghetto edutainment for attention-deficient kidults: pedagogical counterpart to such pre-teen small-screen Blaxploitation as the Jackson 5, Muhammed Ali, or Fat Albert and Friends cartoon shows. Also, Bill Cosby’s bread gig while he completed his PhD, with funky phat moog & spiderman cartoons!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_PuAqRQLKA
&:
…some of the animated insania that Sesame Street inadvertently funded: madcap japes of cartoon deliria, by the animators who worked their bread-gig bits for the Childrens’ Television Workshop… Bambi Meets Godzilla and other outsider epics by Marv Newland (hired to direct The Far Side cartoons on Gary Larson’s personal recommendation), and the proto-punk cartoonery of Sally Cruikshank: mishappen critters with shithouse manners nodding their several heads at Betty Boop, 50's mod design, and an extravagant kitsch exotica.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wUdetAAlY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWPoHg2cRA
Anti-Everything
The wrongest, most-depraved and messed-up animations you could ever hope to see: new “cartoons” by the French Le Dernier Cri collective: space-ape brainjackers steal the controls & turn the hayride toward hell…
(Le Dernier Cri = “Last Gasp”, but don’t worry, theys no actual words in this stuff, these characters are either pre- or post-verbal).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxjRHZzHG4I
PLUS: (YES!) A WHOLE BUNCH ELSE!!!
|
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)