WHEN OBJECTS DREAM (MUSIC + FILM + SHORT
FILMS) @ Studio in Cheras, KL (SiCKL)



THE EVENT BEGINS WITH SYNAESTHESIA LABEL OWNER (http://synrecords.com/label.html ) AND SOUND ARTIST, MARK HARWOOD, WHO WILL TAKE ON THE ROLE AS EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC DEE-JAY FOR THE NIGHT.

THIS IS FOLLOWED BY THE SCREENING OF 'WHEN OBJECTS DREAM' , SOUNDTRACK BY MARK HARWOOD AND ANTHONY
PATERAS.

FINALLY, THE SCREENING OF SHORT FILMS BY JAN
SVANKMAJER, CZECH SURREALIST FILM-MAKER
EXTRAORDINAIRE.

AND, THEN YOU CAN HANG OUT AND TALK TO US.

Saturday, 14 April 2007
8.00pm - MIDNIGHT
admission by donation

::at::
studio in cheras kl
No75, Tingkat 3,
Amber Business Plaza,
Jalan Jelawat 1,
Cheras 56100
(You can take Star LRT, Sri Petaling line, stop at
Cheras Station.
SiCKL is right next to the Star LRT- Cheras Station.
Only a 2 minute walk.)

Map : http://www.yat.ch/emacm/studio/mapnew.jpg


WHEN OBJECTS DREAM
DIRECTED BY PIA BORG
SOUNDTRACK BY MARK HARWOOD AND ANTHONY PATERAS

"Australian artists Pia Borg's "When Objects dream"
crosswire animation and live footage in a surrealist
tableaux, beautifully rendering complex montages into
unheimlich dream sequences that obliquely document the
displacement of memory and disturbed mental states,
with an eloquent soundtrack from Anthony Pateras and
Mark Harwood"- The Wire April 2007

When Objects Dream depicts the pathos that ensues when
the decline and disintegration of mind and memory of
one elderly woman in the throes of dementia occurs as
her physical surroundings are also being
deconstructed.
Her attempts to sort her objects laden with meaning,
sometimes apparent, sometimes inherent, sometimes
imagined mirror the discarding of the post-industrial
society in which she has both consumed and been
consumed. The mystery of the homing pigeons instinct
to use memory, colour and the earth's magnetic pull to
locate its loft is a leitmotif, reflecting a parallel
and at times intersecting existence of seeking to
overcome the loneliness and isolation of mental and
physical dislocation enforced on the woman with the
construction of a massive highway that slowly
encroaches on her backyard. The paradox that confronts
the protagonist is to find the intangible value that
resides in the tangible objects that represent
the sum total of her life's labour. The narrative is
expressed as a poetic visual sequence where a series
of disjointed vignettes are juxtaposed in a chaotic
manner reflecting the distortion of a mind suffering
from dementia. A combination of diverse visual and
aural styles are collaged together mirroring the act
of remembering, here the distinction between reality
and non-reality is blurred just as our imagination,
our dreams and our lives are forever invading our
memories.


THE COLLECTED SHORTS OF JAN SVANKMAJER

For the past forty years, Jan Svankmajer (ALICE and
LITTLE OTIK) has been hailed as one of cinema's most
consistently surprising, wildly imaginative and
remarkable surrealists of our time. Utilizing a
delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion
animation and live action, Svankmajer's films conjure
up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre,
witty and perversely visceral.

Dimensions of Dialogue
12 minutes, 35 mm, color, 1982
A dizzy, passionate kaleidoscope of debris and bones
of contentions that make any dialogue and
understanding impossible.

Down to the Cellar
15mins color1983,
A young girl encounters a series of disturbing
obstacles while on an errand to fetch potatoes from
the cellar.

The Pendulum, the Pit and the Hope
16 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1983
A terrifying live action take on Poe's Classic tale of
toture and repression

Meat Love
1 min,1988
A tale of sudden passion and tragedy between two
steaks

Flora
20 seconds,1989
A Dark ecological tragedy

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia
Colour 35mm,1990
Svankmajer's first film after the fall of communism
provides short history of Czechoslovkia since World
War II and a recounting of the absurd horrors of
Stalinism.

Food
17 min Color 35mm 1992
A surrealistic breakfast, lunch and dinner.


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