Eric Ostrowski’s a freely-improvising musician and experimental filmmaker. E’s all hand-processed 16mm collages and loops, their beautifully naturalistic synaesthesia created as the painted film runs through its projector’s sound pickup. E is craft of the highest order, featuring the E block of its name (something found by Eric’s Mum while she was pregnant with him in 1969), a booklet created from Polaroid emulsion transfer and a 16mm strip of an out-take from one of his films. Not enough? The package also encompasses a CD of violin abstractions that would make both the Vasulkas and Tony Conrad proud.
Also in this combined programme
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Video Music 2: Electric Current
From Lovid’s hertz-bursts of video feedback to the warm brown feeling of Pawel Wojtasik’s Dark Sun Squeeze, video never sounded quite so good. -
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Re-Visiting “Father” and the Source Family
A family story of communal living, Hollywood Hills health food, and a single-minded devotion to costumes, communal idylls and following things through -
The Fine Art of Goofing Off
Devoted to celebrating pointless activity, Goofing Off dances between the silly and the philosophical with free-associative abandon. -
Niger: Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahel
A folk cinema celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, showcasing many of Niger’s venerable music styles. -
Small Steps: Conversations with Pauline Oliveros
A sublimely intimate conversation with Pauline Oliveros – composer, deep listener and sound humanitarian. -
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Medium/Format
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- Premiere status
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