FPS is Auckland’s annual showcase for exhilarating experiments in Expanded Cinema, a premier merging point for film art, live music/sound art, performance and the exploration of cinema – this year Super 8 – as a live event.
Screened as part of NZIFF 2009
FPS
The New Zealand International Film Festival presents FPS: a live cinema and sound event.
FPS is Auckland's annual showcase for exhilarating experiments in Expanded Cinema. Curated by Sam Hamilton and Eve Gordon, it has become a premier merging point for film art, live music/sound art, performance and the exploration of cinema as a live event. — BG
FPS supports a notion of a ‘cinema’ as it once was in its fragile yet ecstatic beginning, an explorative realm for bold new ideas and experimental modes of experience. FPS is cinema that must be experienced. This year FPS is delighted to be focusing on contemporary artists who are renewing the artistic significance and possibility of a very special film format, Super 8. — Sam Hamilton and Eve Gordon
FPS is presented in association with Vitamin S and AUT’s St Paul Street Gallery.
A Film of One's Own 2009
Louise Curham is an Australian artist who works in film performance, installation and experimental film. Her key interest is the experience of deteriorating and ephemeral film images. Her wizardry in the ‘direct’ filmmaking process that employs painting, scraping, bleaching, torturing, marking and collaging various materials directly onto the film strips makes her one of the leading contemporary exponents of this gorgeous cinematic form. Her reinvention of ‘cinema’ extends its reach to become a whole environment where the film itself, the performers and machines, the screens, architecture and audience all become equally important parts of the experience. Curham will be teaming up with Wellington explorative music genius and improvised music guru Jeff Henderson to take you on a truly alive and unique cinematic odyssey.
Tuolumne: The Lights and Perfections 2009
How on earth can something so astoundingly beautiful be expressed through something so physically minute and technologically out of date as Super 8? Achieving such cerebrally enchanting filmic expressions of the innate and hypnotic psychedelia of the surrounding world seems to be a trademark mastery of contemporary San Fransisco artist Paul Clipson. Although not a musician himself, his approach to film-making as a creative act seems to function and resonate more musically than filmically. We are extremely excited to invite internationally acclaimed local sound artist Rosy Parlane to compose and perform live a new soundtrack for this screening.