Scribble Scrapple I.C. You

Fri, Apr 28
7pm
$11/$9 Member price

Wondrous, intricate and unique, each of the performances in this
program belong under the loose rubric of "live cinema"-a term that
describes various innovative visual and sonic arts practices, notably
"live editing" of visual and sound materials; "live generation" of
images and sound (often through computers); and "live composition" of
spontaneously generated and ready-made materials. Live cinema is
perhaps the most engaging and complex of emerging multimedia. This
program offers a rare opportunity to experience several of its
pioneering modes, created onstage by three internationally recognized
innovators in the field. These short performances are connected by
their magical transposition of gestures and objects into projected
sounds and images.

Presented as a series of audiovisual vignettes, The Manual Input
Workstation (Golan Levin, Zachary Lieberman, USA 2004, demonstration
by Golan Levin) reinvests the screen with our primal fascination with
light and illusion. In Mini Movies (Sue Costabile, USA 2005),
Costabile manipulates objects-and sings-to produce beyond-ethereal
animated shorts. Scribble (Golan Levin, USA 2000-2004) is a live
color-music performance that revives and updates a decades-old
tradition of kinetic light performance. Scrapple (Golan Levin, Sue
Costabile, USA 2005) treats a table's surface as if it were a kind of
musical tablature, producing music in real-time from objects lying on
it. Video projections of the table's surface produce a simple
augmented reality, elaborated through luminous and explanatory
graphics. Finally, I.C. You (Sue Costabile, Laetitia Sonami, USA
2006) is a live cinematic thriller based on a script by poet Tom
Sleigh about an ice delivery man whose job is to keep America cold.
Costabile and Sonami use a suitcase-sized foley stage, photos,
drawings, videos, shadow theater and miniature lighting rigs to
chronicle his saga.

Venue:

Kabuki 8 Theatres
1881 Post Street (at Fillmore)
San Francisco

fest06.sffs.org

Kabuki 8 Theatres
1881 Post Street (at Fillmore)
Parking: Parking garage below the theater
Bus lines: 22 Fillmore, 38 Geary, 38L Geary Limited, 2 Clement, 3
Jackson, 4 Sutter

Additional Info:

415-561-5011
http://fest06.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=80