CINEMA AURICULAR

CURRENTS OF CHAOS: ELECTRO-SHOCK CINEMA
Barbican Cinema 2 ­ Tuesday 16 October 2001 ­ 6:15pm

Confusion delusion retribution. Electronic feel flows as your nervous system careens into overdrive. From the chaotic "Outer Space" to the sublime "#11", five films plugged directly into the National Grid to give maximum audio-visual pleasure (or pain). Throbbing, shouting, screaming, smashing This is not for the faint-hearted, but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

OUTER SPACE Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 1999, b/w, sound, 10m
CRITICAL MASS Hollis Frampton, USA, 1971, b/w, sound, 25m
pièce touchée Martin Arnold, Austria, 1989, b/w, sound, 15m
AXIOMATIC GRANULARITY Paul Sharits, USA, 1972-73, colour, sound, 20m
#11, MAREY<->MOIRÉ Joost Rekveld, Netherlands, 1999, colour, sound, 21m [Edwin van der Heide]

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