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Four films by Stan Brakhage with music by Ulrich Krieger, Eyvind Kang, and Michael Pisaro-Liu

Shown on 16mm: Cricket Requiem; Song 27: Part 1, My Mountain; Cat of the Worm's Green Realm; and The Persian Series, 1-5.

*Seating is limited. Ticket reservations are recommended.

Performers:

Ulrich Krieger is a German composer and saxophonist living in Southern California. Krieger’s recent focus lies on the experimental fringes of contemporary rock culture, in the limbo where noise, metal, silence, electronic music, improvisation and experimental chamber music meet – not accepting stylistic boundaries. Beside his solo work he performed extensively with his groups Metal Machine Trio and Text of Light. He collaborated and performed with Lou Reed, Merzbow, Carl Stone, John Zorn, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Faust, Phill Niblock, Berlin Philharmonics, Ensemble Modern, Musikfabrik, PARTCH Ensemble, and many more. His compositions are widely performed internationally. Krieger studied classical/contemporary saxophone, composition, electronic music, and musicology in Berlin and New York. He is professor for composition and rock music at CalArts.

www.ulrich-krieger.com

Michael Pisaro-Liu is a guitarist and composer and a long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective. While, like other members of Wandelweiser, Pisaro-Liu is known for pieces of long duration with periods of silence, over the past two decades his work has branched out in many directions, including work with field recording, electronics, improvisation and large ensembles of very different kinds of instrumental constitution. Pisaro-Liu is the Director of Composition and Experimental Music the California Institute of the Arts.

Eyvind Kang’s recent albums are Azure (with Jessika Kenney, 2023), Sonic Gnostic (2021) and Ajaeng Ajaeng (2020). They have performed with musicians including Bennie Maupin, Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson. 

Films:

Cricket Requiem  1999 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SILENT | 16mm

Song 27: Part 1, My Mountain 1968 | 17.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT | 16mm

Cat of the Worm's Green Realm 1997 | 14 minutes | COLOR | SILENT | 16mm

Persian Series, 1-5  1999 | 15.5 minutes | COLOR | SILENT | 16mm

Stan Brakhage is one of the most influential filmmakers in American avant-garde cinema, noted for his unflinching social commentaries and technical innovations. Over his nearly 40-year career, he has made over 200 films of varying length. He made his first film, Interim (1952) at age 18 after dropping out of college. Brakhage films seek to change the way we see. They encourage viewers to eschew traditional narrative structure in favor of pure visual perception that is not reliant on naming what is seen; rather his goal is to create a more visceral visual experience, for he believes that a "stream-of visual-consciousness could be nothing less than the pathway of the soul."