Named after a Chihuahua, Reynols are a band who despite playing in a public square with guitars plugged into pumpkins, aren’t as enigmatic as they might seen. Like their sometime co-performer Pauline Oliveros, they’re committed to listening in all possible ways to all that is possible to hear. But the interest in Miguel Tomasín, their super-human leader with Down’s syndrome, has made them a cause célèbre. This catapulted Reynols into a world of prime-time TV slots, while their CD-R output offered a multitude of fetish objects for the completist intellectualism of avant-garde music. Frenkel’s documentary is about glimpses into the desert of our own media reality. It inherits a natural humour that must surely shame any mockumentary wannabe.
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. -
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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
- Argentina
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 73'
- Medium/Format
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