Polish animator and filmmaker Piotr Kamler’s 1983 groundbreaking work Chronopolis offers a rich expanse for sonic recontextualizations through its phantasmagorical landscapes and futuristic leanings. In homage to this early work of visionary cinema, composers and visual artists Strangeloop and Gavin Gamboa (founders and members of the art collective The Teaching Machine) take to recreating a sound world fit for its dizzying hyperreality.
The Teaching Machine presents
in association with The Vidiots Foundation & The Institute for Cinema Studies
Chronopolis (1983) • directed by Piotr Kamler
re-scored by Strangeloop & Gavin Gamboa
Documentation by Theo Jemison
Performed at Vidiots Santa Monica, California
2016 January 18
Polish animator and filmmaker Piotr Kamler’s 1983 groundbreaking work Chronopolis offers a rich expanse for sonic recontextualizations through its phantasmagorical landscapes and futuristic leanings. In homage to this early work of visionary cinema, composers and visual artists Strangeloop and Gavin Gamboa (founders and members of the art collective The Teaching Machine) take to recreating a sound world fit for its dizzying hyperreality.
The Teaching Machine presents
in association with The Vidiots Foundation & The Institute for Cinema Studies
Chronopolis (1983) • directed by Piotr Kamler
re-scored by Strangeloop & Gavin Gamboa
Documentation by Theo Jemison
Performed at Vidiots Santa Monica, California
2016 January 18