Soundwalk is very pleased to announce the screening of its movie “KILL THE EGO“ at Centre Pompidou’s Hors Pistes 2010: Un Autre Mouvement des Images festival in Paris on February 26.
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).
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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.
[09/02/10 17:05:15] Isabella Neale Yeager: add: Soundwalk contributor Xavier Veilhan?
