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THE EXPLORER SERIES: INVISIBLE CITY SYMPHONIES #5 BERLIN 2011

JJ — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:33:52 +0000

AUGUST 10th 2011
8:30 PM – ??
Marie-Antoinette @ Bogen 47
Holzmarktstr.15-18,
10179 Berlin, Germany

The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies is a roving exhibition which is creating a culture of contemporary SILENT FILMS and VIDEOS that are screened live with ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORES composed for each piece on an individual basis.

CITIES: The purpose is to connect international artists and the landscapes of different cities with a visceral sound and image experience – blurring boundaries of how we see space, urbanity, and the growing internationalization and globalization of visual and aural perception.

VIDEOKILLS, as an international collective – and the event has so far been curated in BROOKLYN, LONDON, BERLIN, BARCELONA and now comes back to BERLIN

The evening will include eight contemporary silent films each screened with a live performance by a different musician/band

And of course, the cherry on top, a dj set + dance party by the beloved Jambon Beurre

MUSICIANS:

Brian

Dan Stetich and Ellie Gregory

Royalchord

Kathy Kwon and Molly McDonnell

Films+Videos

Gaze – Roy Minten
Berlin Found Footage – Jenna Levine
Last Stop – Jolene Pinder
Night Waltz – JJ Hurvich+Andrei Bowden-Schwartz
Stereo East – Gavin Peacock + Brian McClave
Drift – Theo Tagholm
The Black Balloon – Charlie Hope
Untitled – Tom Locke
Berlin Pass – Luca Reale

++++

xxx

VIDEOKILLS + Marie-Antoinette

Invisible City Symphonies – BARCELONA

JJ — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:54:12 +0000

Photographs courtesy of Fernando Juárez

7 Divagation flyer from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Divagation from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

3 TCTMMF Flyer from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

The City That Made My Future from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Music by Leo Bettinelli

La Trace Du Sel from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Video by Albert Merino
Music by Mireia Tejero

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! INVISIBLE CITY SYMPHONIES #4: BARCELONA

JJ — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:26:28 +0000

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.” – ITALO CALVINO INVISIBILE CITIES

WHERE: BARCELONA, SPAIN @ La Cova de les Cultures
WHEN: OCTOBER 22nd 2010
WHAT: The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies #4 Barcelona

THE PROJECT: The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies is a roving exhibition which is creating a culture of contemporary SILENT FILMS and VIDEOS that are screened live with ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORES composed for each piece on an individual basis.

HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?

***CALL FOR SUBMISSION***
We are looking for work from video artists and filmmakers in cities all around the world – abstract, visually based, narrative, found footage, animation, etc. – of silent works of varying lengths. The only requirement is that the work portrays in some regard the experience of a city, or a series of cities – contemporarily, historically, visibly or invisibly.

We are looking for musicians and sound artists in and near BARCELONA to compose original scores – classical, electronic, jazz, metal, originally recorded field sounds, animal noises, sounds clips, dialogue, etc. – and the pieces will then be shown with a live accompaniment in the tradition of the early silent cinematic experience.

VIDEOKILLS, as an international collective with wide reaching artistic ambition, curated the event first in BROOKLYN, then LONDON and BERLIN and now we are off to BARCELONA

BARCELONA DETAILS DATES AND DEADLINES:
October 1st: Deadline for Visual Submissions

OCTOBER 17th: Deadline for Sound and Music compositions

TO SUBMIT VIDEOS AND FILMS:
Send your submission to submissions@videokills.com via sendspace.com (300mb) or contact us if you have a larger file.

Along with an email attachment with the following information:
- Name of all participants
- Length of piece
- Format
- Country/Location of participants

TO COMPOSE/DESIGN SOUND:
Send an email to submissions@videokills.com expressing your interest ASAP and the following information:
- The names of all participants
- Possible genres/instruments/sounds if you’d like to tell us about your style. (This is not a commitment and obviously once you receive the video you are free to compose/design as you see fit. This is just to give us a concept for possible interesting pairings.)

SOUND PARTICIPANTS: We will send you a video on OCTOBER 3rd to compose/design the sound for.
NOTE: **YOU MUST BE ABLE TO PERFORM LIVE AT THE SCREENING IN BARCELONA ON OCTOBER 22nd**

For any questions please contact jj@videokills.com

Convocatoria para presentar. Invisible City Symphonies #4 Barcelona

Cuando: 22 de octubre 2010
Donde: La Cova de les Cultures (Barcelona)
Què: The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies

EL PROYECTO: The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies es un festival de videoarte y música que ha recorrido las ciudades de Nueva York, Londres y Berlín exhibiendo obras de artistas internacionales que retratan en silencio, y de manera personal, la experiencia en la ciudad o en series de ciudades.

The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies #4 Barcelona está buscando propuestas de videoartistas de todo el mundo que quieran participar en esta 4 edición del festival. El único requerimiento es presentar piezas de videoarte –abstractas, narrativas, de animación, etc. – de variable duración que retraten de alguna manera la experiencia en la ciudad o en series de ciudades, ya sean contemporáneas, históricas, visibles o no visibles.

Estos trabajos serán presentados a músicos locales para que compongan partituras/canciones originales de distintos géneros – clásico, electrónico, jazz, metal, sonidos experimentales, diálogos, etc. – que acompañarán en directo las proyecciones de videoarte, recreando de esta manera, la antigua tradición de las primeras experiencias del cine mudo.

CIUDADES: El objetivo es conectar a artistas internacionales y paisajes de diferentes ciudades con un sonido visceral y una experiencia visual, desdibujando los límites de cómo vemos el espacio, la urbanidad, y la creciente internacionalización y globalización de la percepción visual y auditiva.

Cada exposición utiliza distintas asociaciones de sonido e imagen para crear experiencias complejas y variadas, jugando con el concepto de síntesis y utilizando diferentes acompañamientos en vivo para generar un cuerpo creciente de imágenes. Esto demuestra cómo la percepción de una imagen puede generar múltiples paisajes sonoros, y cada combinación única proporciona al público una experiencia específica a su localización.

CONVOCATORIA:

FECHA LÍMITE PRESENTACIÓN VIDEOS: 1 de octubre de 2010
ANUNCIO SELECCIÓN: 4 de octubre de 2010
FECHA LÍMITE PRESENTACIÓN SONIDO: 17 de octubre de 2010

PARA PRESENTAR VIDEOARTE

Enviar un correo electrónico a jj@videokills.com expresando interés a la siguiente información lo antes posible:
- Nombre de todos los participantes:
- Longitud de la pieza:
- Formato:
- País / Lugar de los participantes:

Una vez finalizada la obra, envíe su propuesta a través de jj@videokills.com, yousendit.com o www.sendspace.com

PARA PRESENTAR COMPOSICIONES/DISEÑO MÚSICA:

Enviar un correo electrónico a jj@videokills.com y expresando interés y la siguiente información lo antes posible:
- Los nombres de todos los participantes:
- Una muestra de música a través de myspace o enlace a SoundCloud.
- Compromiso de disponibilidad para componer y presentar en vivo durante la proyección.

VIDEOKILLS @ HOMEBASE BERLIN, PANKOW

JJ — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:55:27 +0000

Saturday, 25th September 2010
19:00
VIDEOKILLS mini Invisible City Symphonies screening at Homebase Berlin.
In a kleines kino in an old youth hostel from the DDR – an evening of contemporary silent films screened with live original music and sound compositions.
Free! – Featuring the work of contemporary filmmakers, composers, and multi-media installation artists from all over the world.
For more information, visit Homebase

HomeBase Project V Berlin – Webisode 2 from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Thank you to everyone who came out to Pankow in the rain!
The Explorer Series: mini invisible city symphonies was a surprising success for such stormy weather.
A very cozy evening in the main salon of HomeBase Project V in Pankow. Wine and beer, homemade soup, original silent films, live original music scores, culminating in a screening of the City Symphony classic Berlin – Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Walter Ruttmann 1927) with a spontaneous improvised score by the performers and audience.

Program:
NY is a Big Apple – Video by Will Martin and Andre Valentim Almeida

New York is a Big Apple from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Bright Poem – Film by Lily X. Wahrman and Tony Lowe
Performance + Composition by Dan Stetich and Anton Helmersson

City Distortions – Video by Jaykoe
Performance + Composition by Rex Turbo

Night Waltz – Video by Andrei Bowden Schwartz and JJ Hurvich
Performance + Composition by TadKlimp

Stereo East – Video by Gavin Peacock and Brian McClave
Performance + Composition by Jonathan James

The Black Balloon – Video by Charlie Hope
Performance + Composition by The Loafing Heroes

A special thanks to Manu, Marianna, and Juicy for all their slave labor and hard work in the 3-D glasses, driving and decadence department.

INVISIBLE CITY SYMPHONIES BERLIN

JJ — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:48:18 +0000

Carbone from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Carbone by Mathias Euwer
Composition + Performance by Jonathan James

Bright Poem from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Bright Poem by Lily X. Wahrman and Tony Lowe
Composition + Performance by Fernelly and Friends

Berlin Found Footage from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Berlin Found Footage by Jenna Levine
Composition + Performance by Donkey Kong aka David Knowles

Night Waltz from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Night Waltz by Andrei Bowden Schwartz and JJ Hurvich
Composition and Performance by Jordan Nassar

Lightscapes at Dusk from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Lightscapes at Dusk by Ken Simpson
Composition + Performance by Dance Close

Jol Thomson from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Untitled by Jol Thomson
Music + Composition by Resonant Beauty

The Black Balloon from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

The Black Balloon by Charlie Hope
Composition and Performance by the Loafing Heroes

Invisible City Symphonies London

JJ — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:23:22 +0000

Invisible City Symphonies London – Silwex House July 10th 2010
In collaboration with Cities in the dark

Night Waltz from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Video by Andrei Bowden-Schwartz and JJ Hurvich

Paddy on the bike synth from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Night Waltz – With Live Music from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Paddy Austin and Giorgio Zampirolo making crazy sounds to this video

The Black Balloon from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Video by Charlie Hope – Our collaborator and curator from Cities in the dark

The Black Balloon with live music from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

And here it is live – composition by Jamie Hamilton + Live performances by Julian Azkoul, Akiko Ishikawa and Leslie Townsend

City Distortions from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Video by Jaykoe
Sound and live video mixing by Leon Michener

Run from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Run – video, composition and live performance by Kitty Zinovieff and Nena Zinovieff

Untitled – With Live Music from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Film by Tom Lock with live music

Untitled from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Original Silent Film by Tom Lock

Neon Rondezvouz from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Neon Rondezvouz by Julian Hand

When the House Burns Down Pick up the Nails from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

When the House Burns Down Pick up the Nails by Katie Davies

When the House Burns Down Pick up the Nails – with live music from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

When the House Burns Down Pick up the Nails by Katie Davies – with live music

Stereo East with live music from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

3d Video by Gavin Peacock and Brian McClave. Put on your wacky 3d color goggles! What? You sold yours for crack? Then make some ya lazy no good rascal

Invisible City Symphonies BROOKLYN

JJ — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:27:33 +0000

Invisible City Symphonies – Brooklyn, UnionDocs May 28th 2010.
These are some of the silent films with live musical scores we screened. If you have any media you’d like to contribute from the evening, feel free to post.

New York is a Big Apple from Andre Valentim Almeida on Vimeo.

Video by Will Martin and Andre Valentim Almeida

Last Stop from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Film by Jolene Pinder Composition and Performance by Anthony Cekay

COA from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Video by Claire Staples and Reed Posey
Music and Composition by Thompson Bennett Davis IV

Shitty Symphony from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

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Film and Music by Joshua Solondz

Lightscapes at Dusk from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Video by Ken Simpson
Composition and Performance by Luke Woods and Friends

Berlin Found Footage from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

Film by Jenna Levine
Composition + Performance by Sean Ormiston

JJ — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:40:01 +0000

VIDEOKILLS: Invisible City Symphonies… BERLIN // 23/07/2010 // VIDEO FLYER from VIDEOKILLS on Vimeo.

VIDEOKILLS LONDON+BERLIN

JJ — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:05:28 +0000

VIDEOKILLS & CITIES IN THE DARK present… INVISIBLE CITY SYMPHONIES

Videos with Live Musical scores…

This is a CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS going out to video and film artists, animators, experimenters, installation artists, and musicians… AND A CHANCE TO BE EXHIBITED IN BERLIN and LONDON.

WHAT: VIDEOKILLS PRESENTS: THE EXPLORER SERIES: INVISIBLE CITY SYMPHONIES #2 BERLIN

WHEN:
London: July 10th, 2010
Berlin: July 23rd, 2010

WHERE:
London: Silwex Project Space
Berlin: .HBC

THE PROJECT: The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies is looking for submissions from filmmakers in cities all around the world – abstract, visually based, narrative, found footage, animation, etc. – of silent works of varying lengths. The only requirement is that the work portrays in some regard the experience of a city, or a series of cities – contemporarily, historically, visibly or invisibly.

These works will then be given to musicians to compose an original score– classical, electronic, jazz, metal, originally recorded field sounds, animal noises, sounds clips, dialogue, etc. – and the pieces will then be shown with a live accompaniment in the tradition of the early silent cinematic experience.

VIDEOKILLS, as an international collective with wide reaching artistic ambition, curated the event first in New York, and yes! Berlin and London this July.

CITIES IN THE DARK: Cities In The Dark is a London based collective exploring aspects of human dynamism in relation to lo-fi interfaces between humans and their technological environment. Predominantly involving bicycles, electronics, video and DIY engineering, our journey has taken us from our beginnings in mid 2008 organizing urban power cut events in the East end of London through to gallery installations and bike races in Uganda.
www.citiesinthedark.com

BERLIN DATES AND DEADLINES:

June 28th – Deadline for Visual Submissions

June 29th – Sound and music composition begins

July 15th – Deadline Sound and music submission

TO SUBMIT VIDEOS AND FILMS: Send your submission to submissions@videokills.com via sendspace.com (300mb) or contact us if you have a larger file.

Along with an email attachment with the following information:
- Name of all participants
- Length of piece
- Format
- Country/Location of participants

SOUND PARTICIPANTS: We will send you a video on June 29th to compose/design the sound for. NOTE: **YOU MUST BE ABLE TO PERFORM LIVE AT THE SCREENING**

For any questions please contact jj@videokills.com / tiphaine@videokills.com

Thanks and feel free to pass this along.

all the best from London and Berlin…

E: submissions@videokills.com
info@videokills.com

W: www.videokills.com
www.thepostraum.com
www.myspace.com/tiny_disco

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