La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine: July 14

Second Extraordinary Event - July 14th in Alt.Music Festival 2007

The Audio Foundation in collaboration with the Telecom 39th Auckland International Film Festival presents La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine from Grenoble, France is a live expanded-cinema group made up of musicians and filmmakers.

La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine and Plains with moving image work by Michael Morley
$19.50, Saturday July 14, 2007, doors 7pm, starts 8pm
Tickets from Ticketek - service fees will apply
Kenneth Myers Centre, The University of Auckland, 74 Shortland Street, Auckland

Free workshop with Metamkine’s Jerome Noetinger, Kenneth Myers Centre, Saturday July 14, 4pm

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La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine

Metamkine produces and directs a new film with each thrilling and spontaneous performance. These highly articulate improvisations push the boundaries of film and soundtrack into the realm of live performance.

Projectionists Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel perform live on multiple 16mm projectors; they apply chemicals to their films on stage, play with film speed and filters, and scratch directly onto celluloid to stunning effect. Jérôme Noetinger performs live musique concréte in a similar analogue fashion. Utilising reel-to-reel tape recorders and vintage synthesizers, the trio engage in an entirely real-time invention. They create a unity of sound and image, immersing the audience in a rich display of unusual diffusion and refraction techniques and compelling sound-collage.

Metamkine remain deeply purist in their approach to the immediacy and tactility of analogue film and sound techniques. For 20 years the Metamkine project has expanded on the tradition of experimental cinema and celluloid reverie. They could be described as successors to the early experimental cinema lineage of Walter Ruttmann, Isodore Isou, Guy Debord, Stan Brakhage, Len Lye et al, through to Fluxus Film and Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable happenings.

Metamkine’s performances revel in the undeniable beauty and depth of real-time projected film, sound and light. This show should not be missed by those with even a passing interest in avant-garde cinema.

Michael Morley Reason
35 minute, digital video, colour, 16.9
In collaboration with Plains

Auckland electronic supergroup Plains comprised of Rosy Parlane, Richard Francis, Clinton Watkins, Paul Winstanley, Tim Coster and special guest Dean Roberts will also be performing and working in collaboration with a moving image work by Dunedin-based artist Michael Morley (Dead C/Gate). Morley has been making video works since 1990. Non-narrative and experimental, these are often meditations on a subject, removed from real-time constraints and suspended within a timeframe of its own making. Reason was conceived as a response to the video game aesthetic, the romantic painted landscape where possibilities for disaster are commonplace and frequently catastrophic. North Otago is emblematic of New Zealand art history; as landscape it is one of the characters within Reason.

[Metamkine’s] work ethic is a far cry from the trendy multi-art events that are currently mushrooming in the capitals of Europe … The performances were an inspiring and frequently chaotic mix of acoustic, electronic and electroacoustic elements, an aural and visual celebration that even included some live sampling - of the group itself - by Noetinger, demonstrating that analogue and digital techniques can be complementary. As Noetinger puts it: "We have to move beyond this opposition between analogue and digital. The important thing is the music, not where it's coming from."
Rahma Khazam, The Wire 157, March 1997.

“I believe firstly that the cinema is too rich. It is obese. It has reached its limits, its maximum. With the first movement of widening which it will outline, the cinema will burst! Under the blow of a congestion, this greased pig will tear into a thousand pieces. I announce the destruction of the cinema, the first apocalyptic sign of disjunction, of rupture, of this corpulent and bloated organization which calls itself film.”
Letterist filmmaker Isodore Isou, 1950

http://metamkine.free.fr
http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/met.html

Metamkine’s Alt.music appearance is supported by Creative New Zealand, The University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Liquid Architecture, Room40 and Telecom 39th Auckland International Film Festival.

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