AUDIOVISUAL CONCERT - Friday, 28th March

Sofa Surfers presents Life in Loops – Live
Teatro Alameda c/ Crédito, 1 – 5 €

Tickets for sale at the Teatro Lope de Vega and www.generaltickets.com

Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacities (1997), a visually refined essay on the hidden faces of several world "megacities" by leading Austrian documentarist Michael Glawogger. Novotny complements 30 % of material taken straight from the film (and re-edited) with 70 % as yet unseen footage in which he blends original shots unused by Glawogger with his own sequences (shot by Megacities cameraman Wolfgang Thaler) from Tokyo. Alongside the Japanese metropolis, Life in Loops takes us right into the atmosphere of Mexico City, New York, Moscow and Bombay. This electrifying combination of fascinating film images and an equally compelling soundtrack from Sofa Surfers sets us off on a stunning audiovisual adventure across the continents. The film also makes an original contribution to the discussion on new trends in documentary filmmaking.

Sofa Surfers is an Austrian band which plays a mixture of rock and electronic music floating between trip-hop, dub and acid jazz chillout music.

www.lifeinloops.com
www.sofasurfers.net

AUDIOVISUAL CONCERT - The Light Surgeons presents True Fictions: New Adventures in Folklore

Teatro Alameda c/ Crédito, 1 – 5 €

Tickets for sale at the Teatro Lope de Vega and www.generaltickets.com

A cross-disciplinary project that fuses documentary filmmaking, live and electronic music, animation and motion graphics with memorable digital video performance. Commissioned by The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in upstate New York, The Light Surgeons set out to investigate the stories and myths surrounding Uncle Sam Wilson; bearded idol of a contemporary pantheon and personification of the United States.

The Light Surgeons - Over the past ten years the UK based art collective The Light Surgeons have developed and pioneered their own unique style of live mixed media performance. After providing visuals for many live music acts they have pioneered new directions in filmmaking and live audiovisual performance. Creating groundbreaking projects such as “APB - All Points Between” and “The Z-Axis”, The Light Surgeons have blurred the boundaries between filmmaking and musical performance and toured their acclaimed productions internationally. These shows have developed a form of audiovisual journalism that fuses music and storytelling by way of recorded interviews and fragmented narratives in combination with improvised live manipulation of video.

thelightsurgeons.co.uk
avfolklore.blogspot.com