Thursday, November 12, 2009
"Sleep Of Reason"
Movies+Sounds
Then And Than scoring a film by Smelly Wombat, S2K scoring "It's all about the time.",
Haves& Thirds scoring "Killer In The Woods", Jeffery Ruble presenting films from the Ruble Enterprises vault and Ariana Dominguez presenting two short films.
Plus - Kenneth Anger David Lynch shorts
@ [5]art
Suite # 210
1906 N. Armenia
Tampa, Florida
7pm

For this evening the Sleep of Reason Cinema Series at [5]art in West Tampa featured a collection of experimental short films mixed with live soundtrack and performance aspects (the bands played live soundtracks to their short films). A selection of Kenneth Anger shorts were meant to be shown first but extenuating circumstances meant that a selection of David Lynch's earliest shorts were shown in their place.  The evening started off with two (there might have been more, I only caught the last two) short films by Jeffery Ruble, of Ruble Enterprises, it was, in one word broken up with dashes, w-e-i-r-d. Next up were some short documentaries from local multi-media artist Kelly Benjamin, the first dealt with the inhabitants of a modern day shanty-town in Miami, the second was a collection of interviews with protestors/supporters gathered at the height of the Terry Shiavo circus.  I'd seen the second film before but not the first., I enjoyed them both.  Somehow I ended up next on the roster, in lieu of showing a completed film I instead decided to try and show multiple films and visions at once, included were - raw footage that I shot on a trip to Maine with a self modified black and white video camera, surveillance films from a local Pawn Shop, visible audio signals from two modified synths (this part didn't work out too well) and some "live" shots,  I didn't know how the films or the music would turn out, it made it a little more interesting for me, I was happy enough when it all was over.  Two short films from Ariana Dominguez were next up, slight technical difficulties meant these films couldn't be shown in their uninterrupted entirety but that was OK because sometimes you don't need to see a whole film to know that it's a winner.  Hopefully these films will have another showing sometime in the near future.  Then And Than provided the live soundtrack to another film by Kelly Benjamin, this was an awesome experience for me, half of it resulting from the sheer beauty of the music, the other half was due to what I thought was an incredibly genius film.  Haves& Thirds closed the night out by providing a live soundtrack to Todd Lynne's short film "Killer in the Woods", which turned out to be a pre-pubescent horror classic.  A better evening I couldn't have imagined.  Thanks go out to [5]art for the invitation for these bands and individuals to come out, play, and show their films and to everyone that came out to attend this evening's event.




"Ages" - Music by Then And Than, Visuals by Smelly Wombat

While Then And Than originally scored this film live on 12.11.09, it should be noted that the audio track heard in this particular film was recorded at the Wombat's lair a few days afterwards.