+++++++ the Cinema Ascension Festival ++++++ 6th - 8th December 2006 "forget about popcorn and prepare to open up your taste buds to the outer limits of cinematic experience. Expanded celluloid experiments to pixellated digital escapism, ephemeral archival footage to temporal performative projection that will stimulate even the most lethargic of imaginations into exctatic olverload!" hi folks!!! we are extremely happy to be finally announcing the final program for our first experimental film festival. what was originally supposed to me "small" has now, for your wonderful benifet, scaled way out of proportion into a giant wirlwind of cinematic extravaganza!. we have some truely ingredible films from around NZ, Australia and a few from further abroad to including 7 beautiful archival american films which we have generously been given permission to invite people to create original soundtracks of which to perform live for the screening (read more below). anyhow, we will keep you updated in the future, so for now, pass the info along to your friends and pick your self up a hardcopy from about town and we'll see you all soon! sam and eve check out the Kroad Business association webside for more details: http://www.kroad.com/2_Events/200_EVENTS.htm the program Night ! Wednesday 6th Dec 8pm the Wine Cellar Back Room st Kevins Arcade # Louise Curham (Sydney) 'Untitled 2004' 8mm trasfer dvd live sound by Swung "Curham's work is virtually unique among contemporary abstract filmmaking due to its foregrounding of the fragility of the medium: the delicate poetry of her celluloid effacements has a discretion that is rare among artists exploring this variety of terminal cinema." (Jim Knox, 'The 2nd OtherFilm Festival', Senses of Cinema, No. 6 2006) # chris cottrell 'auroral anomaly' Hand–made colour slides reflected off motorized surfaces are projected over digital recombinations of the same. Colours slowly pulse and orbit each other in a whirl of light and sound. # Abject Leader (brisbane) 'A Strange Hysteria' 2005 australia 16mm transfer to dvd director - sally golding sound - joel stern info..... http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=blog&id=106 'Yellow Polly' 2006 australia 16mm transfer to dvd director - sally golding sound - joel stern voice - adam park # Kim Pieters (Dunedin) 'perfume' 08.09mins from the 'ghostwritng' audiovisualdvd metonymic021. camera& editing:kfpieters.2006. audio: sleep:perfume:ghostwritngCD:metonymic011:2001 sleep are: Susan Ballard:viola/synth Kim Pieters:bass Nathan Thompson: guitar/synth/bush saxaphone Peter Stapleton: drums/tapes/radio # Chris Cudby - FLASH video/sculptural live music by the slow evildrone/backmasked/tapedamage group The Brides of Cthulhu # Noiseurs Radboy and The Grazzatron Present…… 'Hard wired Polytonics' A short three movement symphonoise using found kerb-side instruments. # Golden Krone 'Through the Heart (of our city)' dvd a tribute to the city that that motorway destroyed and the lost suburbs of Newton and Arch Hill Night !! Thursday 7th Dec 8pm Wine Cellar Back Room st Kevins Arcade The Live Archive Program an incredible collection of early american avant-garde films accompanied by new soundtracks by a special selection Auckland based musicans who will perform the soundtracks live for this special screening - Anémic cinéma (1924-26)—Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) live soundtrack performed by Jane Austen - H20 (1929)—Ralph Steiner live soundtrack my Rosy Parlane - Skyscraper Symphony (1929)—Robert Florey live soundtrack by Nigel Wright - Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)—G.W. "Billy" Bitzer - Seeing New York by Yacht (1902)—Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed live soundtrack by Bruce Morely - 7 Annabelle Dances and Dances (1894-1897)—W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise & James White live soundtrack by Tim Coster these screenings are made possible by UNSEEN CINEMA: EARLY AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILM 1894-1941 provided courtesy of Anthology Film Archives, New York, and the preservation partners at Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and Cineric, Inc. www-unseen-cinema.com. Much thanks! # Kemadrim (UK) Strains series #5 dvd Bne McDermott 'to investigate the possibilites of combination and distortion offered by modern software" # Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton 'Slide Clicks Side Kicks' & 'Pixel Dust' (dvd) short digital films # Lou Cohen & Bebe Beard (USA) 'Gestures' - dvd Gestures are flourishes, formulas and ritual acts that ornament the language of conventional art. In "Gestures," video artist Bebe Beard and composer Lou Cohen have created a new set of visual and sonic flourishes and formulas suitable for the 21st century. The work consists of a collection of audio/video clips that are played from a DVD in random sequence. During any one performance, clips will be played once, a few times, or not at all. 'Segments' - dvd Segments is a study in evolving colors, accompanied by an algorithmic musical rondo. The music begins with a characteristic sound and then diverges from that sound, only to evolve back to it many times. Lou Cohen is a former student of John Cage and has been composing himself since the 1960's and curated concerts with Christian Wolf and others Night !!! Friday 8th Dec 9pm (or after dusk) Alleluya Cafe st Kevins Arcade # Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton Equatorial Thoughts, Scaled and Phasing. 2006, 5x 16mm a new 5 screen film work in continuous cyclical phasing. overloaded image combinations will be reduced to there extremest pure moving image binary that will deminish your eyes internal optical nerves to jelly # Nigel Bunn (dunedin) 16mm hand made home lab B&W undercranked diaristic experiments on 16mm film, films with hypnotic special technique, direct/melt film about the nature of change, a short direct chemistry film 'views of a crystal world'. (mr Bunn will be in Auckland to present his films in person) # Campbell Farquhar "middle of the road" 16mm live soundtrack by Stefan Neville an experimental film made using pinholes in various ways director: campbell farquhar, images: jake bryant, campbell farquhar # CAMPBELL KNEALE (Wellington) 'Fake Capricorn' 2006, 8mm/digital Additional film material provided by Ellen Rodda. 'still/moving image/images' , 8mm/digital sound: Birchville Cat Motel # Abject Leader (brisbane) 'Plains' 16mm transfer to dvd floating upon the erratic pulse / rhythm of hazy fields of visual and aural recollection. What makes these fields shiver? # Greg Wood & Dean Roberts a live 16mm film and sound colaboration # Jim Knox (Melbourne) 'fuckwit is a cunt' 16mm transfer to dvd jump the habox to hell... 'fuckwit is a cunt (epusode 6)' 16mm transfer to dvd more pointless garbage sandwiched of destroyed insania # Dick White (Wellington) After Many Moons. 16mm. 2004. Sound-track by experimental musicians Nova Scotia Tickets single event prices - $7 Full Festival Pass - $15 much due thanks for there support to: the Kroad Business Association http://www.kroad.com/ and Loteck Media special thanks: the Anthology Film Archives, Linden Kirkby, Rohan Evans, Barbara Holloway, Peter Hawkesby, James Leonard, Bruce Pusner, Drew McMillan, Sally McIntyre, John Radford, Greg Wood, Nigel Bunn, Nick Mulder, Judith Tizards office