NYC - "Heavy Light" (08.23.08)

HEAVY LIGHT

Videos, Films and Live Performances
Saturday, August 23 7-9pm
organized by Takeshi Murata

•••New videos by Yoshi Sodeoka, Ben Jones, Devin Flynn, Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker, Eric Fensler, Ara Peterson and Dave Fischer, Melissa Brown and Siebren Versteeg, Billy Grant and Takeshi Murata

•••The animations of Adam Beckett projected on 16mm film.

Adam Beckett created a body of incredible animations in the short time from 1972 to 1975. His films have all been recently restored, though still only available on film and unfortunately never released on tape or DVD. This will be the New York premier for many of these. Amazing American independent animation from the early 70s.

Dear Janice (1972)
Evolution of the Red Star (1973)
Heavy-Light (1973)
Flesh Flows (1974)
Sausage City (1974)
Kitsch in Synch (1975)

ADAM BECKETT:: "A star among many rising stars, Adam Beckett had a great influence on his fellow students in Jules Engel's then newly-formed Experimental Animation program at CalArts. Both prolific and talented, Adam is still remembered by those who participated in the vibrant film festival community of the 1970's, and who were aware of the evolving animation and experimental film genres. Between 1970 and 1975, Beckett completed seven groundbreaking films: The Letter (with James Gore), Dear Janice, Evolution of the Red Star, Sausage City, Flesh Flows, Heavy-Light and Kitsch in Synch. Two larger independent animations, Life in the Atom and Knotte Grosse, remain unfinished due to Beckett's work in the growing visual effects industry and his tragic and untimely death in 1979 at the age of 29." - Pamela Turner

•••Live video performance by Nate Boyce.
Nate's analogue and digital skills merge to form entirely new and insanely psychedelic videos. Saturday night he'll be creating all video and sound live. Nate lives and works in San Francisco.

•••Live audio performance by Robert Beatty
A member of Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, and Burning Star Core, Robert is a master of electronic sonic manipulations, performing solo under the name Three Legged Race. Robert has also created some incredible soundtracks with long time collaborator Takeshi Murata. They recently returned from Beijing where Takeshi projected videos and Robert performed live. Robert's show is not to be missed!

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New York, NY 10013
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Comments

[bpwane]

Both the live sound performance and the films were amazing. I was impressed that the shorts which were animated over 30 years ago felt fresh and undated.