"fps" presents two events of cinematic efflorescence in Auckland's legendary Winter Garden at The Civic as part of the 38th Auckland International Art Festival. These two evenings (18th & 20th July - 7pm) of performance cinema and live-sound by a selection of Auckland's finest experimental moving image makers and musicians have been curated, at the Festival's invitation, by Phil Dadson and Sam Hamilton.

Prepare to be astonished as projectors jive, multiple screens mutate, live sounds resonate and credits crumble into pixillating questions like, 'What sound does the letter A make?'

Image: From Nova Paul's Pink and White Terraces
"fps" presents two events of cinematic efflorescence in Auckland's legendary Winter Garden at The Civic as part of the 38th Auckland International Art Festival. These two evenings (18th & 20th July - 7pm) of performance cinema and live-sound by a selection of Auckland's finest experimental moving image makers and musicians have been curated, at the Festival's invitation, by Phil Dadson and Sam Hamilton.

Prepare to be astonished as projectors jive, multiple screens mutate, live sounds resonate and credits crumble into pixillating questions like, 'What sound does the letter A make?'

Image: From Nova Paul's Pink and White Terraces
Live Cinema Program
18th & 20th July - 7pm
at the Civic Winter Garden

THE PROGRAM
Tuesday July 18th
NIGHT ONE
Celluloid Orchestra with Chris O'Connor & Adam Willetts
Nova Paul with Rachel Shearer
Alex Monteith with Sean Kerr & Clinton Watkins
Lovely Midget

Thursday July 20th
NIGHT TWO
Greg Wood + guests
Popular Productions and Dean Roberts
Nest
Sam Hamilton & Eve Gordon

tickets available through ticketek or the cinema's.
please see the mail festival booklet or the website for further details.
www.nzff.telecom.co.nz
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the works and artists:

Celluloid Orchestra
Performed by Phil Dadson, Greg Wood, Sam Hamilton, Chris O'Connor, Adam Willets, et al. 22 mins
This is where projectors jive. Percussive sprockets drum light pulse patterns onto various screen surfaces including an orchestral bass drum.

Pink and White Terraces
Director/Producer/Editor: Nova Paul Photography: Nigel Bunn Sound: Rachel Shearer. 10 mins
A 16mm experimental film reflecting on the delicate construction of domestic environments and public places in the Tamaki Makaurau and Manukau cityscapes.

?Sonic Pixel and the Blockbuster?
Alex Monteith, Sean Kerr, Clinton Watkins. 15 mins
A big-screen digital animation by Alex Monteith reworking the closing 15 minutes of the top 15 highest grossing blockbusters. Live sound produced by Sean Kerr via image processing technology, accompanied by an ambient soundtrack by Clinton Watkins.

Sun Tests
Music performed by Lovely Midget. 17 mins
Archival footage has been rearranged and re-edited by Rachel Shearer (Lovely Midget). This work was premiered in 2006 at the New Zealand Film Archive's annual Wellington event 'Soundtracks: A Festival of Live Music and Movies.

MC3
Greg Wood. Performed by Greg Wood, Jeff Wood, Kasia Pol, Jon Baxter, Nick Mulder, Mike Robinson
MC3 is a complex opti-mechanical machine for simple audio composition. A battery of film projectors project images which, when converted into voltages, are processed and amplified as sound.

Redux on popular productions
Image supply by popular productions. Composition/Sound assembly by Dean Roberts. Image handling by Matt Timpson
A tri-screen projection of popular productions' video coverage with a soundtrack composed and constructed in accordance with the structural economy of the footage.

Release
Nigel Wright. Live soundtrack by Nest (Andrew Scott/Nigel Wright)
Release is Nigel Wright's first foray into the world of digital video. Using laptops, it takes sonic events to generate and effect video and sound.

Transubstantiation Loops
Sam Hamilton, Eve Gordon. Footage by Campbell Farquhar. 20 mins

Multiple screens, turntables with mirrors on them and a guitar played with a film projector. A live expanded movie of hypnotic tonal sound washes and murky cyclic images, flying reflections and colourful melting pictures