Syndicate: D-Day 8: Dan za dokumentarec - 14.2.99

[koen.vandaele@guest.arnes.si]

Dear,

The prelude to the D-Day-series was last year's Bar SyHaPa: 
D-Day 0 confronted Claudia Heuerman's SABBATH IN PARADISE (a
documentary about the New York downtown Radical Jewish
Culture-scene), with a concert by Anthony Coleman's SEPHARDIC TINGE.

For D-Day 8 (EXCEPTIONALLY ON A SUNDAY) we serve a second "step
across the border". Although this time the combination of the
presented documentary and the following concert is of a less direct,
less illustrative, but of a more associative nature. 

The subtitle of D-Day 8 could very well be PICTURE OF LIGHT versus
SOUND OF PICTURE(s). Or: a hallucinatory tale of the Canadian
filmmaker-cinematographer Peter METTLER versus the visionary
image-provoking sound-scapes of Fred FRITH.  (More info: below).

Hope to see you next Sunday in Slovenska kinoteka.

Best regards,
Koen Van Daele
programme curator & coordinator 
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D-Day8: Dan za dokumentarec
14.2.1999, Slovenska kinoteka, Ljubljana

19.00: PICTURE OF LIGHT
Director and cinematographer: Peter Mettler; editor: Peter Mettler &
Mike Munn; sound: Gaston Kyriazi, Leon Johnson, Peter Braeker,
Alexandra Gill, Peter Mettler; music: Jim O'Rourke; text: Peter
Mettler; production: Peter Mettler, Andres Zuest, Alexandra Gill.
Canada/Switzerland, 1994, 83 min., col., 35mm (English spoken, no
subtitles)

Picture of Light documents Mettler's journey to Canada's arctic in
search of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights. While combining
glimpses of characters who live in this remote environment, with the
film-crew's both comic and absurd attempts to deal with the extreme
living conditions on the Northpole, the film reflects upon the
paradoxes involved in trying to capture the natural wonder of the
Northern Lights on celluloid. Mettler: "We live in a time where things
do not seem to exist if they are not captured as an image. But if you
look into darkness, you may see the lights of your own retina -- not
unlike the Northern Lights, not unlike the movements of thought, like
a shapeless accumulation of everything we have ever seen. Before
science explained, the Northern Lights were interpreted as visions,
prophecies, spirits -- a trigger of imagination -- images provided by
nature, framed by no less than the universe itself".

21.00
FRED FRITH GUITAR QUARTET
Concert.
with: Fred Frith (UK), Nick Didkovsky (USA), Rene Lussier (Canada),
Mark Stewart (USA)

More on FRED FRITH and his Guitar Quartet: http://www.fredfrith.com/


Tickets:
PICTURE OF LIGHT: 600 SIT
FRED FRITH GUITAR QUARTET: 2000 SIT
Double bill PICTURE OF LIGHT/FRITH: 2100 SIT

D-Day 8 is co-produced by Druga godba and SyHaPa.

The series D-Day: Dan za dokumentarec is produced by Open Society
Institute Slovenia; in collaboration with Open Society Network
Programs - Soros Documentary Fund (New York). Executive producer:
Slovenska kinoteka.

PRESS-PICTURES ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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Koen Van Daele
Programme coordinator D-Day
phone: -386-61/329.184
fax: -386-61/13.23.092
email: Koen.VanDaele@guest.arnes.si