Sunday May 18, 2008, 7:00 pm
At the Silent Movie Theatre
611 N. Fairfax Ave. just south of Melrose
Park across the street (free) at Fairfax High School
Los Angeles Filmforum, NewTown and CineFamily present
Noisy People — Films plus a live performance!
Funded in part through Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program.
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TICKET PRICES FOR THIS SHOW:
$15 general/$12 members (Cinefamily and Filmforum)
For advance tickets, visit CineFamily’s ticketing website.
Noisy People (2006, 76 minutes, video) Feel like blowing into the wrong end of a horn or slapping a drum
with a head of lettuce? These folks do it, and make beautiful music. Skronking saxes, manipulated violins, superb synthesizers - freely improvised or thoroughly composed … Noisy People is a feature-length video documentary following the tightly-knit group of unusual sound artists and musicians from the San Francisco improvisational music community.
But even better, after the screening will be a LIVE PERFORMANCE by a quartet of the subjects of the film — Tom Dill (trumpet), Gino Robair (percussion/electronics), Phillip Greenlief (sax) — and the filmmaker Tim Perkis (electronics). A Q&A session with the performers will follow the screening. More on the film can be found here.
Filmmaker Tim Perkis, himself a well-respected player in the Bay Area experimental music scene, followed his subjects for a year, filming them in their homes and studios, rehearsals and performances. What emerges is a set of funny and lively portraits of some very creative and quirky people — and a portrait of a way of life outside the commercial musical mainstream of America.
They’re not making a living at it — but these artists have pursued their work passionately and in the process have created a world-wide following and a supportive community at home. These are people, who, as composer John Shiurba put it, “aren’t going somewhere, but who ARE somewhere.”
The film features George Cremaschi, Tom Djll, Greg Goodman, Phillip Greenlief, Cheryl Leonard, Dan Plonsey, Gino Robair, Damon Smith. Also appearing are dozens of other creative musicians, including Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith and Jack Wright.
Bios of the filmmaker & performers (click on Keep Reading for more):
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