As we mentioned briefly in our last post, Kill the Ego will be screened on September 4, 2010, at the prestigious Circuito Off Venice International Short Film Festival in Venice. The festival program describes the film thus: “This film is the encounter between the work of American painter Rostarr and sound recordings that Soundwalk did in New York between 1998 and 2008. Rostarr captured the sound material and placed in matter in motion and color the words of fragmented memories, poets and prophets, visionaries and lost children. A story, a tribute to the city, is emerging in the assembly of these micro-narratives.”
Seconde Nature is a multidisciplinary Festival dedicated to the most recent creative sound, visual, art and multi-media works in the fields of electronic music, digital art, and “other cultural oddities”.
“Kill The Ego” began as a song, as an epic 40-minute-long poem composed of 10 years of sound recordings captured in New York by Soundwalk between 1998 and 2008. The fragmented memories of poets and dominatrixes, of pimps and prophets, of visionaries and lost children – the gamut of stories from the street: of the most obscure corners, of underground unrest, intimate and universal biographies of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – Soundwalk has captured and woven together the sounds, conversations, and songs of urbanity. Initiated by Dalbin, this soundtrack of New York City has been represented visually onscreen by the artist Rostarr, who used the sound recordings as a launch for an art series documented by directors Jim Helton and Ron Patane. Inspired by the technique used in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s masterpiece “Le mystère Picasso”, the directors sought to give life to the creative process and gave birth to the aural and visual work that is the film Kill the Ego.
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TICKETS TO WIN
Clark Magazine is giving away free tickets to the Festival, more info : click here
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SCREENINGS : FRIDAY 11 AND SATURDAY 12 OF JUNE, 7PM – 2AM
“Kill The Ego” will be shown along with four other films on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of June, from 7PM to 2AM, at Fondation Vasarely, Aix-En-Provence.
“Kill the Ego” is available for purchase through the Collectorserie iPhone/iPad application. Collectorserie is a visual and musical works of art collection that was developped by Dalbin in collaboration with mobile agency Clicmobile, with the objective of placing contemporary video and sound creation at the collector’s fingertips.
We were so pleased that so many of you turned up for Kill the Ego last Friday at Centre Pompidou, as a part of their Hors Pistes festival – both screenings were sold out and received with enthusiasm. Thanks to all of you for your support, and we hope you enjoyed the show!
Following the 8:00 screening was a discussion in which the artists spoke to the audience about the inspiration and motivation driving the film’s creation. According to the sound designers, among them Stephan Crasneanscki and Dug Winningham, the film plays with a recording’s unique ability to alter the reality of a sound: temporally, by allowing it to be heard long after it has in fact ceased, and contextually, by layering and mixing it with other sounds to create a new sonic text. The painter, Rostarr, commented on the project’s personal value to him as a means of expressing the important role that New York City has played in his life throughout the years he has called it home.
It was a great evening, and we’re looking forward to next event with Philippe Starck at the International Exit Festival in Paris later this month. Stay tuned for more details!
Depuis 2006, le festival Hors Pistes “s’attache aux nouveaux usages de l’image contemporaine et témoigne des ruptures et des détournements qui nourrissent les formes traditionnelles du film et de la narration. Pour cette 5e édition, un double dispositif illustre l’abondance et l’autorité des images. Les œuvres projetées en salle donnent à voir le monde contemporain à travers les regards singuliers, décalés et affirmés d’artistes internationaux.”
“KILL THE EGO” a débuté comme une chanson, un poème épique de 40 minutes construit à partir de 10 ans d’enregistrements sonores capturés dans New York par Soundwalk entre 1998 et 2008. Les mémoires fragmentées de poètes et de dominatrices, de maquereaux et de prophètes, de visionnaires et d’enfants perdus… Les situations de rue les plus diverses, les recoins les plus improbables, l’agitation underground, les fables intimes et universelles de Manhattan, de Brooklyn ou du Bronx… Soundwalk a capturé puis mélangé des bruits, des paroles, des mélodies urbaines. Le peintre Rostarrs’est emparé de cette bande-son de la ville pour l’interpréter visuellement et s’est lancé dans un marathon de peinture documenté par les réalisateurs Jim Helton et Ron Patane. Inspirés par la technique utilisée dans le chef d’œuvre d’Henri-Georges Clouzot, «Le Mystère Picasso», ils ont cherché à donner vie au processus de création et donné naissance à cette œuvre sonore et visuelle qu’est le film “KILL THE EGO”.
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GAGNEZ DES TICKETS POUR “KILL THE EGO” AU CENTRE POMPIDOU !
Soundwalk offre dix tickets pour la projection de “KILL THE EGO” au Centre Pompidou. Le concours aura lieu du 10 au 18 février. Pour gagner un ticket, laissez un commentaire sous cet article. A la fin de la période du concours, dix gagnants seront tirés au sort parmi les auteurs de commentaires !
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PROJECTION : 26 février 2010, 20:00, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Tickets en vente le jour même sur place. 6€ (4€ tarif réduit).
COLLECTOR SERIE | Application iPhone lancée par Label Dalbin, 21 mars 2010
“KILL THE EGO” sera également la première œuvre vidéo en vente dans l’application iPhone Collector Serie. Ce concept, lancé par Label Dalbin en collaboration avec l’agence mobile Clicmobile, va révolutionner la collection et la distribution de l’art vidéo en plaçant celui-ci littéralement au bout des doigts du collectionneur.
Le film Furtivo du chanteur Sebastien Tellier et de l’artiste Xavier Veilhan sera la deuxième œuvre disponible sur Collector Serie, et sera également projeté à Hors Pistes cette année (20 février 2010, 19:00).
Since 2006, the Hors Pistes festival has, “in examining new usages of contemporary imagery, shown the ruptures and departures that nourish traditional forms of film and narration. For this 5th edition, a double device illustrates the abundance and authority of images. The contemporary world firstly appears in the screened works, through the uncommon, unconventional and asserted vision of international artists.”
“KILL THE EGO” began as a song, as an epic 40-minute-long poem composed of 10 years of sound recordings captured in New York by Soundwalk between 1998 and 2008. The fragmented memories of poets and dominatrixes, of pimps and prophets, of visionaries and lost children – the gamut of stories from the street: of the most obscure corners, of underground unrest, intimate and universal biographies of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – Soundwalk has captured and woven together the sounds, conversations, and songs of urbanity. This soundtrack of New York City has been represented visually onscreen by the artist Rostarr, who used the sound recordings as a launch for an art series documented by directors Jim Helton and Ron Patane. Inspired by the technique used in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s masterpiece “Le mystère Picasso”, the directors sought to give life to the creative process and gave birth to the aural and visual work that is the film KILL THE EGO.
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WIN TICKETS TO “KILL THE EGO” AT CENTRE POMPIDOU!
We are giving away ten tickets to the screening of “KILL THE EGO” at Centre Pompidou in Paris. The contest will run from February 10-18. To win a ticket, leave a comment on this blog post – at the end of the contest period we will select ten winners at random!
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SCREENING: 26 February 2010, 20:00, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Tickets available for sale before the screening at the Centre Pompidou ticket counter for 6€ (4€ reduced price).
COLLECTOR SERIE | Launched by Label Dalbin, 21 March 2010
“KILL THE EGO” will also be the first piece available for purchase through the Collector Serie application for iPhone. This concept, developed by Label Dalbin in collaboration with mobile agency Clicmobile, will revolutionize the collection and distribution of video art by placing it literally at the collector’s fingertips.
Singer Sebastien Tellier and artist Xavier Veilhan’s film Furtivo will be the second film available for sale through Collector Serie, and will also be screened at Hors Pistes this year (20 February 2010, 19:00).
KILL THE EGO will also be the first piece available for purchase through the Collector Serie application for iPhone. This concept, developed by Soundwalk co-founder and CEO Alex Kummerman, will revolutionize the collection and distribution of video art by placing it literally at the collector’s fingertips. Xavier Veilhan’s film Furtivo will be the second film available for sale through Collector Serie, and will also be screened at Hors Pistes this year.
‘KILL THE EGO’ , an audio portrait of New York City conceived by Soundwalk, visually interpreted as a motion painting film by Rostarr and directed by Jim Helton & Ron Patane, opens Movement Media’s Kinetic Cinema screening series this wednesday September 9th at 7:30 pm. Location: The Tank 354 W. 45th St. NYC. Advance $10 tickets available here. Director Jim Helton and Rostarr will be in attendance at the screening, the audience is encouraged to stay for a short Q & A and meet the artists.
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“Kill the Ego started as a song, a song of New York, an epic forty minute song built over ten years of fragmented memories, voices of pimps and engineers, poets and domanitrixs, visionaries and children, hope and sorrow captured on field recording devices and in studios by Stephan Crasneanski and Dug Winningham, the sound design team otherwise known as Soundwalk.
In February 2008 Romon Yang, otherwise known as Rostarr, was listening to that song intently, memorizing it, envisioning it. He and Soundwalk had been brought together by French producer Eric Dalbin to make a movie for a March 4th festival deadline. Directors Jim Helton and Ron Patane were then commissioned along with line producer Joie Reinstein to make a movie of Rostarr’s vision of Soundwalk’s sound.
Inspired by the process oriented masterpiece “The Mystery of Picasso” by Henri-Georges Clouzot and the work of experimental filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon, the filmmaking process began almost at once. Rostarr worked like a madman for two weeks, producing all the work for the first installment of Kill the Ego in an amazing and remarkably physical burst of creativity.
The filmmakers documented the work and tried to find ways to make the process come alive through the shooting and later through an equally furious editorial process. Rostarr’s physical presence as an artist is truly cinematic, he is like a martial artist of paint and ink as the utmost control and daring experimentation is combined with a reckless abandon and fluid grace. Each twist and turn of the sound design is reflected in Rostarr’s evolving process as canvases are painted over, stories are told and erased, transforming from representations to abstract emotional reactions.
Throughout the shooting and editorial process the soundtrack played over and over, the sound merging with the paint in Rostarr’s studio and later with the image as the two elements became merged into what is now known as Kill the Ego.”
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‘KILL THE EGO’ , an audio portrait of New York City conceived by Soundwalk, visually interpreted as a motion painting film by Rostarr and directed by Jim Helton & Ron Patane, will be the feature presentation of NEW FILMMAKERS New YorkWednesday July 8th at 9:00PM Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Ave.
Listen to excerpt from ‘KILL THE EGO’
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Paul Auster narrates “Act of God”, a feature documentary about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. Auster, struck by lighting as a teenager, is no stranger to cataclysmic events.
Matthew Broderick stars in “Wonderful World” which premiered yesterday at the Tribeca Film Festival, directed and written by Joshua Goldin. In this dramatic romance Broderick portrays Ben Singer, a pessimist who finds comfort in regular chess games and friendly debates on game theory.
Check it: FREE iTunes podcast of the Bryant Park Soundwalk narrated by Matthew Broderick
