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Black Rain (Semiconductor, UK 2009) screening in THE CINEMA OF TURBULENT TRANSMISSIONS

THE CINEMA OF TURBULENT TRANSMISSIONS

Brisbane, Australia

Details

Part of Wireless Imagination
Where State Library of Queensland
Date Saturday, 7 November 2009

Douglas Kahn introduces and discusses solar noise and electrical turbulence illustrating his ideas with some recent and historical film favourites.

THE CINEMA OF TURBULENT TRANSMISSIONS - WORKS

  • 10mins
    Altisonans, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, 1966, Sweden, 10mins

    Altisonans

    (1966) Karl-Birger Blomdahl Sweden

    With permission from the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation. Pioneering Swedish experimental composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl made this television program entirely of radiation signals and collage imagery after meeting Polish geocosmophysicist Ludwig Wikliszka, who introduced him to sounds sent back to earth by…

  • Brilliant Noise, Magnetic Movie , Black Rain & The Sound of Microclimates Semiconductor (UK)

    Brilliant Noise, Magnetic Movie , Black Rain & The Sound of Microclimates Semiconductor (UK)

    Ruth Jarman , Joe Gerhardt UK

    Semiconductor make works which reveal our physical world in flux; cities in motion, shifting landscapes and systems in chaos. Since 1999, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt have used digital animation to transcend the constraints of time, scale and natural forces;…

  • 3mins
    His Favorite Wife Improved or, The Virtue Of Bad Reception, Ken Jacobs (2008, USA, video, 3mins)

    His Favorite Wife Improved or, The Virtue Of Bad Reception

    (2008) Ken Jacobs USA

    “We keep a dish on our roof, not for luck: to pull in TV signals. Whenever a thunderstorm hits, reception whacks up. Lightning can really make a broadcast sizzle. The following is exactly as recorded one stormy New York day…

  • 9mins
    OBSERVANDO_El_Cielo

    Observando El Cielo

    (2007) Jeanne Liotta USA

    Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and inscribed onto 16mm film from various locations upon this turning tripod Earth. This work is neither a metaphor nor a symbol, but is feeling towards a…

  • Selection..... Thomas Ashcraft

    selection…..

    Thomas Aschcraft

    Electro-receptor extraordinaire Thomas Ashcraft harnesses the subtle pulses of the universe’s micro-energies to create bewitching short films and music. “At extremely low frequencies, lightning crackles above me, the power grid buzzes around me, and my footsteps shoot out sparks as…