(K-RAA-K)³ Festival 2008, 1 march 2008, Brussels, Belgium www.kraak.net
The (K-RAA-K)³ festival moves to Brussels for its tenth edition. In close proximity to (and even under) the railway tracks, for your convenience. This time the musical expedition is settling in Recyclart and only a stone’s throw away in arts centre Les Brigittines. A desecrated music club and a renovated church. Courtisane compiled a programme for this 10th edition: Not There or what's there and what's not. About presence and absence, the limits of our sight and the freedom of imagination. The programme: films by Volkner Schreiner (Cell), Herman Asselberghs (Futur Antérieur a.k.a. Disciples of the Heinous Path - Part 1: The Pain of Everyone), Thorsten Fleisch (Energie!), Ben Russell (Black and White Trypps number three), Ben Rivers (The coming race), Semiconductor (Magnetic Movie) and live performer Alex Mackenzie (The Wooden Lightbox: a secret art of seeing).
Cell Volker Schreiner (DE), 2006, 4'27" Cell is a controlled montage of images with the noise of television screens in dark living rooms. An experiment in which visual beauty is the most essential part.
Futur Antérieur (a.k.a. Disciples of the Heinous Path - Part 1: The Pain of Everyone) Herman Asselberghs (BE), 2007, 15'00" Herman Asselberghs' Futur Antérieur is, for the most part, a decidedly 'anti-retinal' affair: it consists of fifteen minutes of utter, stifling blackness filled with noise and an occasional glimmer of distant, shimmering twilight. Nothing points to anything, and there are no signs of meaning to be gleaned from its abysmal eventlessness in any way, 'till ...
Energie! Thorsten Fleisch (DE), 2007, 5'00" An uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30,000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization.
Black and White Trypps Number Three Ben Russell (US), 2007, 12’00” How do fans experience the showcase of their favorite band Lightning Bolt? Ben Russell focuses on a couple of people in the front row. A hypnotic experience on the ecstasy, the sweat and becoming one with the music.
The Coming Race Ben Rivers (IE), 2005, 5'00" Thousands of people climb a rocky mountain terrain. The destination and purpose of their ascension remains unclear. A vague, mysterious and unsettling pilgrimage...
Magnetic Movie Semiconductor (UK), 2007, 5’00” The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?
Live Performance The wooden lightbox: a secret art of seeing The wooden lightbox: a secret art of seeing is the new work of Canadian artist Alex Mackenzie. It is the first of a cycle of films that reflects on the early development of cinema and long forgotten ideas about moving images. In this live performance he uses a self-built hand-cranked 16mm projector. This "work in progress" is presented in ten chapters with a varied speed, according to cranking more quickly or slowly. All images are hand processed and contact printed.
