Her Ghost (Trailer)

UK premier of Kode9, MFO & Ms. Haptic's Her Ghost - a powerful and provocative live performance, reworking the late Chris Marker's La Jetée from the female character's perspective, redressing its historical gender imbalance as they draw new narratives, a mounumental sound composition from Kode9, and MFO's carefully reconfigured images, out of Marker's originals. Also on the evening, a new filmic performance by Aura Satz encodes sound as light via synaesthetic experiments with the image and optical tracks of 16mm film, with live music and a voice over scripted in collaboration with Lis Rhodes, whose iconic work of expanded cinema, Light Music, was a response to the under-representation of women in the musical avant-garde. Ben Russell's Trypps film series is an ongoing study in trance, travel and psychedelic ethnographies.
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Her Ghost: An Homage to Chris Marker's La Jetée is an on-going collaborative film-sound performance project between DJ, Hyperdub label boss, and sound designer Kode9 (Steve Goodman) Berlin-based MFO visual artist collective Marcel Weber and Lucy Benson, and researcher/lecturer/performer, Ms.Haptic (Jessica Edwards), that significantly re-works, both aurally and visually, Marker's science fiction film-photo-essay original (1962). 50 years from the premiere of Chris Marker's science fiction anomaly, Her Ghost refracts the original script, so that it now sheds light onto the previously obscured figure of the woman. Drawing from the stills, narrative and soundscape of the original film, Her Ghost suggestively recasts, further complicates and asks difficult questions of its ‘parent'. It is performed live, but off-stage, amidst its audience. Each iteration of the project produces a fractionally different mutation of the film. Her Ghost was originally commissioned by Unsound Festival and first performed in Krakow, Poland in November 2011. This will be its UK premier.
Arnolfini/Bristol 1/11/12
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