[g8-sheffield] Lost Film Fest/Infernal Noise Brigade/Filastine at the convergence space - 11th June

[gavin at cyber-rights.net]

All this fun stuff (below) will be happening at the convergence 
space on Matilda Street on 11th June. £3 in. Wallop.


LOST FILM FEST is a laugh-a-riot event with equal emphasis on both 
"laugh" and "riot." Focusing on pranks vs. corporations and 
government institutions. If George W. Bush makes you puke and you 
dig pie fights with cops, riot footage, and culture jamming, you'll 
love the punk rock urgency of the Lost Film Fest and its 
celebration of media archaeology and illegal art. 

Lost Film Fest from West Philadelphia is a traveling multimedia 
spectacle incorporating live performance and video. It's a truly 
independent, anti-authoritarian, anti-corporate grassroots DIY 
media extravaganza hosted by Festival Director Scott Beibin 
(Bloodlink Records, Evil Twin Booking.) Beibin travels the globe 
telling stories and spinning movies like a DJ using a video 
projector, dvd player, and backpack filled with goodies. The 
roadshow incorporates a sexy, smash-it-up, radical anti-capitalist 
anti-globalization perspective. Truly "Too Hot for TV" since 1999, 
the LFF has featured scathing and hilarious social commentary in 
the form of narrative shorts, documented pranks, hot amateur 
protest footage, and video re-mixes. Additionally there is an 
annual weeklong event held in Philly, and guerilla visits to 
Sundance and Cannes. This jam is about smashing the illusions cast 
by Hollywood, the Pentagon, and FOX News. Yeah! 

www.lostfilmfest.org. 
scottb at lostfilmfest.org 

Lost Film Fest in the news: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,887603,00.html


http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:4389 

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,44454,00.html

aswell as the lost film fest itself, the Infernal Noise Brigade and 
Filastine are coming over with scott. here's some info..
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The INFERNAL NOISE BRIGADE is a 20-piece mutant marching band using 
drums, horns, voice, flags, and loudspeakers for intervention 
across the globe. At manifestations in Seattle, Prague, Cancún, & 
New York the INB has performed in clouds of gas and hails of rubber 
bullets without dropping a beat. Between these big international 
actions the Infernal Noise Brigade performs at festivals, raves, 
prisons, and Burning Man, leaving a wake of dismantled spectacle in 
their path. 

The INB sound combines elements of drumline, taiko, Mughal and 
North African rhythms, with elements of Balkan fanfares, 
breakbeats, and just about anything else. Songs feature vocals and 
noise fed by miniature FM transmitters to loudspeaker rigs. 
Infernal equipment is reverse-engineered, from the custom welded 
drum-harnesses to the uniforms sewn from roadsigns and sanitation 
workwear. The Infernal Noise Brigade does not perform in a space, 
but rather occupies it, blurring the line between performer and 
audience. 

“The virgin experience of the Infernal Noise Brigade in action can 
be adrenaline boggling. The music explodes the senses like a 
thunderstorm.” (Clamour Magazine) 

"Seattle's Infernal Noise Brigade drowns the sound of concussion 
grenades with their drums.” (The Village Voice) 

“The result, I think, is not only liberating for the band, but also 
something more raw for the audience, something truly interactive.” 
(The Stranger) 

more (pics, bio, music clips): 
http://www.infernalnoise.org
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FILASTINE performs LivePA/DJ sets that wreck genre, seamlessly 
integrating hip-hop, batucada, breakcore, drum & bass, politics, 
and international obscura. The core of a Filastine live performance 
consists of a laptop & electronics where tracks are remixed and 
layered, then enhanced with live percussion. Filastine will also be 
joined by MC Subzero Permafrost, the rhyme-spitting sephardic ice-
princess of New Orleans, on this European tour. 

Filastine toured the UK last fall as part of Nettle, a project of 
DJ/Rupture, on the Street Music Arabe tour. His releases are 
available on Soot Records, Entartete Kunst, and Post World 
Industries, and he is currently working on a number of 
collaborations with Brazilian rappers as part of the project Sonar 
Calibrado. Filastine has performed in a bizarre variety of spaces 
and nations in the last year, from Argentina to Japan, gate-
crashing and delivering up the sonic immediatism. 

“The live and programmed drums feel like time itself has been 
sliced open, offering a cross-section of temporality's complex and 
relative clockwork.” (The Wire) 

“I caught these guys – Filastine and Maga Bo – by chance at the 
Capitol Hill Block Party, rocking laptops in an impromptu setting 
on an old beater, wearing orange auto-mechanic suits and black 
masks. They were the most interesting act of the entire event. 
Their sound warps the boundaries among drill ‘n’ bass, Muslimgauze-
style Arabic breakbeat terror, and early Meat Beat Mainfesto’s 
intelligent industrial funk.” (The Stranger) 

"Funky laptop madness that spans the gamut from ass shaking to mind 
melting, with occasional live drumming" (Small Change) 

mas (mix downloads, press materials, bio): 
http://www.filastine.com




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