SCALENE FILM

SCALENE FILM

A bi-monthly double feature night for films that refuse to rely on an emotional shorthand, and thus creating an experience that is more active for the viewer than the passive, fast-food way we are used to seeing films. These are uncompromisingly humanistic films that, to quote Ray Carney, "bring us back to life." These films exist outside the world of traditional narrative exposition, fantastic moral pushing, cutting edge negativity, funny violence, and cutesy nostalgia that characterize current 'hollywood' and 'indie-wood' films, yet they lack the gimmicky self-indulgence that currently characterize films as "experimental." So, as they reside in limbo, below hollywood and even indie-level distribution, yet outcast from experimental circles, SCALENE FILM's mission is to help introduce them into the collective consciousness.

The FILMS:

APART FROM THAT www.foreignamericanpictures.com
THE BED YOU SLEEP IN www.jon-jost.com
FINALLY, LILLIAN AND DAN (featuring filmmaker Mike Gibisser in person) http://www.inmanfilms.com/main.html
IN CLAMATORE
SLOW DAYS http://www.focusmedia.hr/adp/

And Many More...

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scientific lab report for untitled music project

"when the moon bellows out loud and you are beneath it, alone with your brain, it is possible to experience every known emotion in the span of only a few minutes. however, you never know which one is coming next." - kyle

8/5/08

PURPOSE

a living, visual, radioactive experience for the ear
that feels unpredictably open-ended- that is, violent and boring and haphazard and imaginative, or grotesque and uncertain and 'dream-like', with extreme amounts of focused clutter, containing moments of cold and warm divinity, stupidity, dirt and distortion, and is as sloppily intricate and stumblesome and infinitely big and small as life is. Its about the way the brain and the guts collaborate and organize their world. a series' of unending questions, a search for personal and emotional 'truth' without knowing what it looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels like

The specific sounds will not be characterized by a superficial genre, tradition, shorthand, or specific 'sound' but will instead be guided by an internal, intuitive flow of energy, group discussion, personal gut instinct and quiet deliberation- in collaboration with the tools we have to work with and our abilities to express ourselves with them.

METHODS

The only rule is when you make a rule, you have to break it, and when you find yourself falling into a pattern you have to break that, and when we start to have a 'sound' we have to break that.

Collaging and re-collaging field recordings, samples from everything we can get, repeated group and solo improvisations, repeated group and solo rehearsals, extreme amounts of layering voice and texture- songs built from hundreds of different bits- snippets of stolen moments from all the different times and places of our lives, focused suspension, casual and non-casual song-writing, songs sung in the kitchen while doing dishes, memories, dreams, visions, lots of percussive sounds mixed with beats, changes, rhymes, riffs, ambiances, choruses, noise, noises, sounds, verses, empty buckets of suppressed memories from the backlog of several selves moment continuing…

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