Flim presents:
FLIM (film event)
Friday October 8 | Doors: 9 PM, Screening: 9:30 PM | $7 – 10 sliding scale
Feature: Decoder [1984], Directed by Klaus Maeck
German cult film with more treats than a box o’ Cracker Jacks: multiple cameos, uber-cool cinematography from Johanna Heer, the ultimate minimal-synth sound track, and a handful of frogs? Yes!
Runtime: 87 mins | Language: German/English | Country: Germany | Color: Color
IMDb Link: imdb.com/title/tt0087129/
Hamburg, 1983. F.M. is a youngster leading an idle urban life, totally alienated from his environment, and only active when making “sound experiments” in his home studio. Christiana, his girlfriend, works in a peepshow on Reeperbahn. A chronically depressed customer is infatuated by her and tries to get more closely acquainted. The relationship between F.M. and Christiana is cool and distant, except for the moments at breakfast, when they share the muddled visions of their dreams.
One day F.M. suddenly wakes up to the surrounding reality, as he notices how the inconspicuous background music at a hamburger joint may have some connection with the junk food. It dawns on him that muzak is designed to control and brainwash the masses, not unlike lobotomy. On top of its paralyzing effects, muzak is also laced with subliminal messages. F.M. decides to go back to the bar and records the muzak for his own purposes. He starts to develop a form of “anti-muzak” in his studio, by playing the original material backwards, or at a wrong speed, or by mixing it with interfering factors like sounds of street riots or squealing frogs.
Preceded by: Foreign Heroin by Holzkopf and excerpts from ANTI
Join us for local sound artist Holzkopf’s premier of Foreign Heroin. Footage from secret home video tapes reveals an intimate glance at life in Vancouver. holzkopf666.googlepages.com
ANTI is a DVD compilation of 20 international multimedia artists assembled from V-ATAK an “audio visual label”. Each artist was commissioned to work with the intangible, ethereal restraints of glitch, pushing the limits of noise, feedback, circuit bent, cartridge tilting madness. formatted in classic 4:3 screen ratio. v-atak.com/shop/anti-dvd-v-atak04-15e-edvd-5e
Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.
