PAT O'NEILL WATER AND POWER (1989)

Director: Pat O'Neill

Year: 1989

Time: 55 mins

Music

 George Lockwood - Composition and Sound Design

John Bergamo - Percussion

Greg Johnson - Percussion

Robert Lloyd - Piano

Kurt Festinger - Piano, Flute, Saxophone

Vivian Miller - Alto

Eye of Sound: Pat O'Neill, one of the most interesting filmmakers in America today, offers a dazzling reflection on the conflict between nature and man in Los Angeles, or the desertification of the city's surroundings due to its enormous water consumption. More interestingly, it is also a film in the age-old tradition of city symphonies: a film about LA's foundation myths and the dreams it embodies, about its history and (grim) future, its topography and ethnography. O'Neill uses footage from several classic films to recreate the several layers of meaning emanating from the city, juxtaposing images and fantasies and hardly ever allowing one picture to go untouched. George Lockwood's swarming soundtrack is likewise composed of conflicting languages, an elaborate work of plunderphonics in which snippets of sound stolen from movies collide with electronic soundscapes, contemporary chamber music, improv, and what not. The final result is an immersive experience into which the spectator is irresistibly drawn,  and a brilliant film in which the profusion of signs does not occlude the construction of clear meanings.

 

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LICHTER PÉTER LIGHT SLEEP (2009)

Director: Lichter Péter

Year: 2009

Time: 6 mins

Music: Horváth Ádám Márton

Eye of Sound: Dream or nightmare, Light Sleep recaptures the fabric of the unconscious through decomposing film. Eros fades away as the delicate and sparse soundscapes of Márton drift into silence, allowing sleeping beauties to finally sleep. Memory regained, memory extinct; memory of what you crave and what you lost. 

http://rapidshare.com/files/379448827/lightsleep.mp4

BILL MORRISON TRINITY (2000)

Director: Bill Morrison

Year: 2000

Time: 12 mins

Music: Michael Montes

Eye of Sound: Carnality rediscovered in another beautiful Morrison short. An implied connection between male voyeurism and the camera surfaces as we gaze into ruined footage of an onanist woman who constantly betrays an awareness of the film-fact. Montes' soundscapes return us to the world of dust and ruins from which these now otherworldly erotic memories emerged. An eerie tribute to celluloid, and a disturbing peep into male erotic dominance.

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KEN JACOBS NEW YORK GHETTO FISHMARKET 1903 (2008)

Director: Ken Jacobs

Year: 2008

Time: 132 mins

Music: Catherine Jauniaux & Tom Cora

Eye of Sound: Veteran avant filmmaker Ken Jacobs reassesses lost and found footage of a crowd of Jewish immigrants at a market in the poor areas of Manhattan, reframing movements and gestures through simple image manipulation techniques. Frames float hypnotically, in all directions, as Jauniaux's  and Cora's deep, serene and richly textured score unfolds against a screen of constant re-contextualization. 

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JOSEPH CORNELL:BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (1942)

Director: Joseph Cornell
Music: John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Carol Emmanuel,  Shanir Blumenkranz
Year: 1942
Time: 8 mins
Eye of Sound: Found-footage upside-down, backwards spinning. Industrialization reversed, or the charm of the noble savage.

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