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

[Dave Havard]

11th June has been and gone !!

gavin at cyber-rights.net wrote:

>All this fun stuff (below) will be happening at the convergence 
>space on Matilda Street on 11th June. £3 in. Wallop.
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>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: 
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>http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,887603,00.html
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>http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:4389 
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>http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,44454,00.html
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>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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