Frequent Small Meals + Table of Elements Festival #4

Yikes! Even though I'm no longer in the ATL I like to support Andy Ditzler's FILM LOVE programs produced by Frequent Small Meals at the Eyedrum Gallery. This month he's doing work in collaboration with the Table of the Elements #4 experimental music festival. I just realized I was about to completely miss the dates on this one. This edition of FILM LOVE highlights film sound, and processed films. Unfortunately, the Friday (Jack Smith, Ira Cohen, and Tony Conrad) and Saturday (Charlemagne Palestine) programs are over, and they sounded not-to-be-missed. Still you can catch the Sunday program (Robbie Land, Tony Conrad & more, more...). For the details of all, see below:

Friday, September 1, 2006, 8:00 pm
CARNIVALS OF ECSTASY: Tony Conrad and the New York Underground

SEE Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures" in 16mm and Ira Cohen's "Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda" in a new version!
SEE the premiere of a new work by Cohen!
HEAR soundtracks by the legendary Tony Conrad and Angus MacLise (original drummer for the Velvet Underground)!
SEE and HEAR Tony introduce the films!

Saturday, September 2, 2006
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE Filmworks

A program of film and video featuring soundtracks and performances by composer and musician Charlemagne Palestine. Pip Chodorov's "Charlemagne 2: Piltzer" is a tour de force of hand-processed film which documents a Palestine piano concert. Chodorov uses flicker, negative/positive imagery, different printing techniques and colored filters to produce a film that is a true merging of sound and vision.

Sunday, September 3, 2006, 7:00 pm
16mm Cine-Performance by ROBBIE LAND
New addition to the festival!

A solo performance consisting of Land's 16mm film projections, three 16mm magnetic audio tracks, contact microphones, reel-to-reel audio player, guitar amplifiers, video projection and other elements to create a visual and sonic environment. Time-lapse 16mm images of rural
locations are accompanied by multiple audio tracks from the rural setting.

Followed by a solo performance by Tony Conrad (8 pm), the world premiere of Rhys Chatham's Essentialist (9 pm), and the opening of Leif Inge's 24-hour Concert "9 Beet Stretch," based on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (10 pm)