The Church of the Living Cinema
Film / 2000

01/02
Press release
The Church of the Living Cinema
Friday 30th June 2000
A showcase night of experimental live cinema, featuring new commissioned works from top visual, audiovisual and sonic artists. Two rooms include live music and multiple projections, visual jousting and installations, djs and vjs.
An evening of live happenings in an evolving space 15 artists, 50 projectors - 4 hours of time released entertainment
Short turns - between 5 and 20 mins - all experiments in sound and image. The continuous visual thread of the evening will be the visual joust between Konst and Ollie on the massive screens. Your musical host in the main space will be Fred Deakin - once known as
Fred Leicester. The experience will be theatrical and lavish - over 50 meters of projection screens - the interior of the venue lit up with multiple still and moving images, the sound bed throughout warming the tone and lifting the spirit. In the bar more music and vision. This time in the form of an interactive cctv piece The Effect which can shift time and make you disappear and reappear. As the DJs play a more chilled out range, the screen responds twitching and changing in time to the beat.
Main Gallery
Live Visual Jousting
Throughout the evening Ollie Winser from Eyecon and Konstantinos from Urban. Visuals in Vancouver go head to head on two massive 20m wide screens - an evolving battle of the senses with sound and music accompaniment by Fred Deakin and Lee Walker
(Mellowtrons). Xavier Perkins of Exceeda - created AKA for Cartoon Network - classic cartoons get mangled and spat out in all directions with live musical accompaniment
"1:1 Undiluted. Image. Sound. air conditioned. Layer. Clean. Balance. Mistake.
Experiment. Unknown. Select. 50%Minimum. Invention. Extract. Exit. total = Exceeded dose"
NYC-based artist L. Halsey Brown provides a moody moment with empty scenes from well known films in "Inside and Outside of Moving Time" La Bande A Toute Faire - live rescoring of George Melies pioneering silent scifi Journey to the Moon - using a hi-fi/lo-fi mixture of home made instruments and digital processing
Neil Robert Herd - the self-styled Les Dawson of pedal steel guitar players - retwangs twisted cowboy animations
Jes Benstock of Technobabble, Xavier Perkins of Exceeda + Giles Thacker of Ultrascope - boil down and remix Terry Gilliam's Brazil - mangling the soundtrack and the images into a 10 minute head to head homage with live sound manipulation - from the video feeds and hidden mics through the venue mixed and resampled by Lee Walker Ultrascope create the visuals and design the screens for Orbital's touring show. Technobabble produce short films - as well as pop videos for Orbital, Morcheeba, The Levellers and the video projections for Catatonia's last tour. Lee Walker is cornerstone of the trip hop alchemists Mellowtrons.
Uncle Bob's Lucky Dipping Wheel of Fortune THE way to watch videos live - 3 dozen very short videos culled from new
filmmakers and choice tv moments - ranging from the bizarre to the almost unwatchable - chosen in random order by the wheel. When you've had enough shout "spin the wheel" and the next random choice goes on. A gong show for all those strange bits of video that make you laugh for about 30 seconds.
DJ in Main Gallery Fred Deakin from Impotent Fury - this mans record collection is enough to make a grown man weep
"Fred Deakin misspent most of his youth getting messy behind the turntables in various dodgy dives up and down the country. After
teaching graphics at Central St. Martin's for a couple of years, he co-founded the new media design company Airside. He is also half of the Lemon Jelly sound experience, and can be found getting just as messy behind the turntables every month at Impotent Fury, a night he runs at the 333 in Hoxton for fellow sufferers."
Chilled Bar Area
Blisstock present The Effect - a digital hall of mirrors - as seen on Orbital's last pop promo and at Big Chill - make your own live cinema where time goes backwards, speeds up and slows down. If you stand still you disappear.
djs Betty Snake and rebeKah from Brighton - noodly thumpy front room disco
Adam and Noah from Vegetable Vision - laying down oldschool dub
Karina T (ex of Mike Flowers Pops) lounges out in rare kitsch groove style
Dark room, foyer, bar and everywhere else - Insight - themed visuals, cheeky installations and lavish decorations throughout the venue. Insight are a collaboration of lighting designers and visual artists who have worked together since the beginning of the rave scene. As well as their art work they have produced and designed shows for the Orb, London Fashion Week + Tummy Touch