PROGRAM PIXEL PIRATE 2 Directors Cut: SODA_JERK with Sam Smith
Headlining at Sydney Underground Film Festival
as part of RECYCLED CINEMA - 10 September 2011 at 6pm
A thoroughly entertaining critique of intellectual property law and a speculative history of sample-based culture that takes the form of a sci-fi / biblical epic / action movie (starring Moses, Elvis, The Hulk and more)! Entirely constructed from over 300 different pirated sources. With artist Soda_Jerk in attendance, this session is guaranteed to make you laugh and smile nonstop!
"It's the copyright cops versus the pixel pirates in avery intricate B-grade plot" - Dan Angeloro
"Be afraid. Be very afraid. Because Soda_Jerk is going to alter your future through interrogating your past" - William Yeoman, the West Australian
Using 300 samples from well known films in one huge 52 minute mash up in an all new production not to be missed!
Check out a Preview of Pixel Pirate 2 and read attached review by Mark Hobby
For tickets, screening times and more SUFF info go to http://suff.com.au/category/featurefilm
PIXEL PIRATE 2 Directors Cut | SODA_JERK with Sam Smith | 2006 | 52:00
RENO | TONY LAWRENCE | 2007 | 1:00
Early 60s discarded 16mm footage of an aspiring beauty pageant queen who swans through America’s Midwest.
AUTOMATIC MEAT PROBE | SHAWN HENNESSY | USA | 2001 | 5:00
Scissoring a couple of angry antagonists from a 1970s stunt film, leaving their machismo to howl in the celluloid void as they beat the shit out of each other and into infinity.
LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH | NICOLAS PROVOST | 2010 | BELGIUM | 7:00
A found footage horror film in which existing fragments from horror films are transmogrified into a new film where the images literally consume one other.
CONNECTING WITH NATURE | CLINT ENNS | 2011 | USA | 1:28
An instructional video that lies somewhere between the realms of infomercial and guide to spiritual enlightenment.
CAMP | PETER FREUND | 2010 | USA | 7:00
Juxtaposing the political and theatrical senses of ‘camp’ as a metaphor for our contemporary cultural deadlock between two post-modernist sensibilities.
RE-SYNC | TARA NELSON | 2010 | USA | 2:30
Fast cars, drugs and child safety tips converge in this found footage film.
ESCAPE PLAN | PAUL TURANO | USA | 2010 | 2:00
An anomaly witnessed and recorded in the evening sky on November 8, 2010 in Southern California provoked a frenzy of speculation. Is it an optical illusion, an airplane’s vapor trail, or could it be an entity from another place, fed up with earth and finally deciding to return home?
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