Live music performances at the IFFR 2008

Performing live as part of Exploding Cinema:

Cameron Jamie Live: The Melvins play BB, Kranky Klaus and Spook House
The Melvins (inspirators of bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Tool) live playing a very loud metal soundtrack to accompany the Cameron Jamie films BB, Kranky Klaus and Spook House.
Monday 28 Jan - 22.30 hrs - Oude Luxor

Cameron Jamie Live: Keiji Haino Plays JO
Keiji Haino, the cult guru of the Japanese noise scene, plays live to accompany Cameron Jamie's film JO.
Tuesday 29 Jan - 22.30 hrs - Oude Luxor

Cameron Jamie Live: The Melvins & Keiji Haino Play BB/JO/KK Remix
The metal of The Melvins and the noise of Keiji Haino join forces for a live soundtrack with the Cameron Jamie films BB, JO and Kranky Klaus
Wednesday 30 Jan - 22.30 hrs - Oude Luxor



Umfeld: Speedy J and Scott Pagano
The Rotterdam techno producer Jochem Paap (alias Speedy J.) and the American image mixer Scott Pagano presents an audiovisual dance evening in Off_Corso on Thursday 31 January.Jochem Paap was involved with the Rotterdam techno and dancing from the start and also had a hit Pullover. For the dance evening in Off_Corso he is working with Scott Pagano, to protect his visuals on several large screens. Pagano is more a film maker than a traditional VJ: he works with his own images, processed photographs and self-made animations. In addition, Paap is not an ordinary DJ, but a live composer using special software, samples and sound effects.The lounge of Off_Corso will provide a venue for the DVD Umfeld, an intense, beatless audiovisual creation by Paap and Pagano. One day earlier, the Dolby 5.1 Surround version of Umfeld will be shown in the Small Auditorium of the Schouwburg.5.1 offers the composer and extra dimensional: where stereo music can only move from left to right, 5.1 uses the whole three-dimensional space. Umfeld is one of the first compositions specially made for 5.1.
Thursday 31 Jan – 23.00 hrs – Off_Corso


Pop Cinema
Pop Cinema colours the festival evenings in the Small Auditorium of the Rotterdam Schouwburg with films, performances and interviews. Each evening, Pop Cinema focuses attention on a different part of the festival with film screenings, interviews and performances, musical or otherwise. Pop Cinema chooses roundabout routes, lateral thinking, provides music and invites film makers and artists to inform and discuss.
Entrance: free with filmticket / Tijgerpas / IFFR accreditated Guests

Pop Cinema Talk Show, 25 January until 1 February, daily 9:30 pm, followed by live performances:
Fri Jan 25: American hiphop formation Dälek
Sat Jan 26: Dutch singer-songwriter Spinvis
Sun Jan 27: Audio artists Zai Kuning (Singapore) and Koichi Shimizu(Thailand/Japan), who made the soundtrack of VPRO Tiger Awards-nominated film Wonderful Town by Aditya Assarat (Thailand)
Mon Jan 28: Keith Rowe & Will Guthrie / Machinefabriek & Wouter van Veldhoven
Tue Jan 29 Belgian jazz pianist Jef Neve accompanies the film Un Chant d'Amour by Jean Genet
Wed Jan 30: Speedy J & Scott Pagano
Thu Jan 31: Dutch singer-songwriter Lucky Fonz III, “dylan in film”
Fri Feb 1: Bombay Connection

EXPRMNTL, the Ghosts of Knokke-Le-Zoute
Homage to a unique event. EXPRMNTL was a festival for experimental film (five editions between 1949 and 1974) where the Underground film reached Europe and special encounters were evoked, happenings took place and scandals were created. Curated by Xavier Garcia Bardon.

EXPRMNTL includes the following live music performances:

Charlemagne Palestine (USA), /Body Music/: screening of the original
video piece /Body Music 1 /(Charlemagne Palestine, USA/Italy, 1973, 13')
followed by a live performance of the same piece, 35 years later.

Keith Rowe (UK): electric guitar solo live performance by Keith Rowe,
legendary guitarist, founder of AMM

Two live soundtracks by Stellar Om Source (NL) and Danielle Lemaire
(NL) on the film /Le Vampire de la Cinémathèque /(Roland Lethem,
Belgium, 1971, 24')

Lantaren 1

Sun 27 Jan

17:00

The Rotterdam film festival sidebar ‘Short: Starting From Scratch (Jan 24 – 28, 2008) includes live experimental music performances by:

Michaela Grill / Giuseppe Ielasi

Live Music and video performance of about 45 minutes. The multimedia duo Grill/Ielasi attempts to link improvised electronic music and abstract live visuals to the highest degree possible, making this neither a standard ‚concert‘ nor a ‚music video performance‘ - the object is to interact in a improvisational way with no hierachy between the visual artist on the one side and the musician on the other. From the visual point of view, the video material is generated live and the sound is one of the possible sources to influence the abstract visuals. The computer and the electronic interfaces function as active co-designers.
Friday 25 Jan - 19.45 hrs - Lantaren 1

Intermittent Movements: John Price & Machinefabriek
Especially for this occasion, Machinefabriek wrote soundtracks for four new silent films by John Price: Camp Series #1, Camp Series #2, The Boy Who Died and Intermittent Movement #3 and he will perform these live!
Friday 25 Jan - 19.45 hrs - Lantaren 1
Monday 28 Jan - 19.45 hrs - Lantaren 1


SFS Live Projections: Lafoxe / Metamkine
Two live film performances developed out of lab collective Atelier MTK – Grenoble France Lafoxe is a dynamic film performance made with Hollywood found footage in ‘Hyperscope’. The influential collective Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine recently celebrated 20 years of unique improv cinema performances.
Information on Metamkine: http://metamkine.free.fr/
Saturday 26 Jan - 21.45 hrs -Lantaren 1


SFS Live Projections: The Wooden Lightbox / Fellini G Mastorna
SFS own little cinema regained programme. Protocinema with homemade hand-cranked projector by Canadian artist Alex MacKenzie and double screen 16mm Fellini evocation by Saint Etienne collective made in the lab of Atelier MTK – Grenoble France.
Sunday 27 Jan -16.30 hrs - Lantaren 2
Tuesday 29 Jan - 20.00 hrs - WORM


SFS Live Projections: Destra o Sinistra / Paradiso Stills
It’s Super 8 Wednesday! Brussels based lab collective LABO’s Super 8 and 16mm multi-projection performance is a dronepunk melodious wandering between drowned skylines, calm transparent volcanic shadows and moving landscapes. ‘The Eye of Amsterdam’ Jaap Pieters recently portrayed the punks of the 1980 cult book ‘Paradiso Stills’ on Super 8 and will present the results as triple projection with live music by Hilary Jeffery and Lysn.
Wednesday 30 Jan - 22.00 hrs - WORM


SFS Live Projections: De un Vastisimo Mar / Le Point Aveugle
Two live film performances using 16mm by lab collectives LIC / MVD - Montevideo Uruguay and Burstscratch - Strasbourg France. De un Vastisimo Mar could be considered as a film in the making, in the real time of a film performance, about exile as a relationship. Le Point Aveugle (the blind spot) is less narrative and takes the form of ‘Intuitive cinema’ in colourful multiple projections.
Thursday 31 Jan.- 20.00 hrs - WORM