pop film extravaganza

"From the dark to the light"
Mister Mixup's Pop Film extravaganza
Belgrade 10th Sept 2008

Academic film centre, DKSG, Belgrade, Sept 10th,2008
"From the dark to the light"
Mister Mixup's Pop Film extravaganza

03. The Residents: - 2004
a. Amber - doug Carney
b. Possesions - Rajendra Serber
c. Picnic Boy - The Residents
d. La La - Geert Vandenbroele
e. The Coming of the Crow - Jean-Michel Roux

04. DJ Dangermouse - The Grey Video - Laurent Fauchere and Antoine Tinguely (Ramon & Pedro)- 2004

12. The Brian Jonestown Massacre & The Dandy Warhols - Dig - Ondi Timoner - 2004

"DJ" was a single by David Bowie. It was taken from the album Lodger in the UK, released in 1979.
David Mallet filmed a video for the song, featuring Bowie destroying a DJ studio, mixed with Bowie strolling around London and attracting a crowd of curious passers-by.
David Mallet is a director particularly noted for his work on music videos, including David Bowie's innovative "Ashes to Ashes" and Queen's "Radio Ga Ga" and "I Want to Break Free" videos.

Test Dept were an industrial music band formed in London, by unemployed musicians Formed in 1981, they are hailed by many musicians as one of the most influential early industrial music acts. Their approach was marked out by a strong commitment to radical politics like supporting the Miners strike of 1984.

Test Dept used unconventional instruments such as scrap metal and industrial machinery as sound sources, and was often accompanied by film and slide shows. The band played concerts in a number of unusual site-specific locations, such as Waterloo, Cannon Street station, Stirling Castle and the defunct St Rollox Railway Works in Glasgow.

The band released the album “Program For Progress” in 1984 on VHS video, and made a full-length film to cover each song on the album
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The Residents are an avant garde and visuals arts collective based in San Francisco who have created over sixty albums, created numerous musical short films, and undertaken six major world tours.
In 1980 The Residents created four short films based on The “Commercial Album”. Their were 40 one minute long songs on the original album. Long considered as ground breaking music videos, these films are now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Commercial Album they have released a DVD with an amazing collection of 56 one-minute films based on the original 40 Commercial Album songs. In order to produce this large number of films, in addition to themselves, The Residents have assembled an outstanding group of 42 visual artists from around the world.
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04. DJ Dangermouse - The Grey Video - Laurent Fauchere and Antoine Tinguely (Ramon & Pedro)- 2004

The Grey Album is an album by Danger Mouse, released in 2004. It uses an a cappella version of rapper Jay-Z's The Black Album and couples it with instrumentals created from a multitude of unauthorized samples from The Beatles (more commonly known as The White Album). The Grey Album gained notoriety due to the response by EMI in attempting to halt its distribution.

The Grey Video is a music video made in the autumn of 2004 by directing team Ramon & Pedro, that is Swiss directors Laurent Fauchere and Antoine Tinguely, to promote the single "Encore" from The Grey Album.

The video, which is entirely in black and white, features clips from The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night, and footage from a Jay-Z performance.

The Video is not available commercially, but has become popular over the Internet.

DJ Qbert is a highly rated DJ in the turntablism scene. San Francisco based filmmakers Syd Garron and Eric Henry worked in collaboration with DJ Qbert to create a long-form visual complement to the DJ's celebrated album “Wavetwisters”. The 45 minute episodic animation film was made using Adobe After Effects, and follows the album's track by track narrative with a story about the inner space dental commander' whose task is to revive the elements of hip hop culture by battling many villians in a dense visually excessive "Inner Space". The film makers tried to create a visual corollary to turntablism, mixing different visual and animation styles at will.

An eye-popping, hip-hop-meets-Hanna-Barbera animated adventure synched skratch for skratch with DJ QBert's turtable masterpiece of the same name, this sci-fi-/kung fu epic seamlessly integrates dazzling visuals to original musical compositions.
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The Chemical Brothers are the United Kingdom-based Grammy Award winning electronic music duo of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons.
Along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim and The Crystal Method, as well as other acts they were pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre.

"Elektrobank" is a song from the Chemical Brothers second album Dig Your Own Hole, released as a single on September 2, 1997. Spike Jonze directed the music video, which depicted a gymnastics competition with his future wife Sofia Coppola as one of the competitors.

Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel October 22, 1969) is an American director of music videos and commercials, and an Academy Award-nominated director and producer in film and television, most notably the 1999 film Being John Malkovich.. He is also credited as a co-creator of MTV's Jackass.
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Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), better known as Aphex Twin, is an electronic music artist. The accompanying music video to Come to Daddy released in 1997 was directed by Chris Cunningham and filmed on the same council estate where Stanley Kubrick shot many scenes in A Clockwork Orange. Most are now being knocked down.

Chris Cunningham is an acclaimed English music video film director and video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk.
Cunningham has had close ties to Warp Records since his first production for Autechre.
n these and other videos, Cunningham advances a unique aesthetic, infusing each video and commercial he makes with a dark, occasionally gothic sensibility. That these frequently nightmarish visions are also infectiously hypnotic is a tribute to Cunningham's striking originality.
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Squarepusher is the performing name of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass, musique concrète, and acid, with a significant jazz influence.

Jenkinson was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1975 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School. He went on to study Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. A self-taught drummer and highly skilled bass guitar player, his style of extremely fast, cut-up beats mixed with fusion jazz and interlaced with synth lines and samples has gained him a cult following.

Leftfield are a duo of electronica artists and record producers. The pair were pioneers in the fields of intelligent dance music.
"Afrika Shox" is a song by Leftfield, a single released from their album Rhythm and Stealth. The song featured vocals by Afrika Bambaataa.
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Animated film of the album of the same name by Harry Nilsson. Directed and animated by Fred Wolf
The Point! is a fable by American songwriter and musician Harry Nilsson about a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in The Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything had to have a point.
"I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'" Harry Nilsson

The film version of The Point! Was first aired February 2, 1971. The film was directed by Fred Wolf.

In its initial airing, the voice of the father was provided by Dustin Hoffman, but for contractual reasons later airings of the film could not use Hoffman's voice and it had to be re-recorded. The initial re-recording was done by actor Alan Barzman. The VHS and DVD releases feature Ringo Starr as the father.

Rufus Harley born 1936; d. 2006) was an American jazz musician of mixed Cherokee and African ancestry, known primarily as the first jazz musician to adopt the Scottish great Highland bagpipe as his primary instrument.

George Manney has constructed a warm and compelling picture of Rufus Harley, transforming him from a mere curiosity or musical freak into an emblem of a city, a nation, and an ethos of peace, love and harmony.
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12. The Brian Jonestown Massacre & The Dandy Warhols - Dig - Ondi Timoner - 2004

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are a neo-psychedelic rock band founded in San Francisco, California, in the early 1990s, led by Anton Newcombe.
The Dandy Warhols are a rock band formed in Portland, Oregon led by Courtney Taylor. They both make a pastiche of '60s psychedelia that has characterized most of their music.

While filming music videos and documentaries, Timoner was simultaneously financing, producing, directing, and editing DiG!, which chronicles seven years of the lives of two bands.
It contrasts the developing careers of the bands, the break up of their friendship, while tracking the destructive path of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, DIG! also accompanies the more "well-adjusted" Warhols through their leader Courtney Taylor as they begin to suceed.
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Sigur Rós are an Icelandic post-rock band with melodic, classical and minimalist elements. The band is known for its ethereal sound. Formed in Reykjavík, August 1994.
Heima (Translation: At Home) chronicles Sigur Ros' 2006 free tour of Iceland, with every song introducing you to a different corner and aspect of Iceland. Each filmed performance takes place in a different location, from abandoned villages to massive open air concerts. This film serves as both a wonderful introduction to Sigur Ros and their music as well as a great advert for Iceland.

Dean DeBlois is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, animator. He is best known for co-writing and co-directing the Disney animated film Lilo & Stitch. His other credits include 1980s Canadian animated series The Raccoons.
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