INSECTS & FLOWERSEX (aka The Birds & The Bees) [films mostly from 1930s to 1970s]
INSECTS & FLOWERSEX (aka The Birds & The Bees) [films mostly from 1930s to 1970s]
Thursday, September 10th, @ 8pm <> Le Petit Versailles garden, 247 East 2nd St. (near Ave C)
The event will happen at the garden rain or shine. It will also be broadcast on zoom for those who cannot attend in person.
Zoom details at the end of this post
Films on film, programmed by Bradley Eros, from the Mushroom Archive: [69 minutes total]
The pleasure of cinema manifests with a tactile exposure to actual celluloid and LIVE ACTS!
A lively, living mixed-media series of shorts featuring films from 1930s to 1970s curated by Mushroom Archives’ Bradley Eros. In keeping with Le Petit Versailles’ vanguard legacy of creative disruption, the evening will include avant garde movies—such as Killers of the Insect World and Woody Woodpecker & The Termites from Mars—live sound by LeLe aka Lullady, a radio collage soundtrack by Jeanne Liotta and a live soundtrack performance by Pinc Louds. Several films will be presented in silence with perfume scents & tasty treats. The program opens Reel Ecologies: Films for a Sustainable City: the outdoor festival of The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) from September 10 – 13, 2020.
THE PROGRAM:
Killers of the Insect World (bug snuff!, & almost Buñuelian in its entomological savagery) w/ live sound by LeLe (aka Lullady) [6 minutes]Woody Woodpecker & The Termites from Mars (animated cartoon, with an electronic Sun Ra soundtrack, Eros addition) [6 minutes](Sally Rand's) Bubble Dance (her huge inflated balloon appears to be our delicate earthly globe) ~ with classical music on film [3 minutes]
Leopard Slug Sex, from Life in the Undergrowth (in flagrante delicto, or fantastique & delicious, cork~screwing hermaphroditic bodies in ecstasy), with music by Yuka Honda [4 minutes]Secrets of the Plant World (aka The Sex Life of Flowers ~ played backwards with soundtrack on film [18 minutes]The Eyes of Animals ~ (beautiful scientific film with close-ups of animals' eyes & animations), with a live soundtrack performance (by Claudi of Pinc Louds) [12 minutes]
Bees & Ears, strange as it sounds, with random radio collage soundtrack, by Jeanne Liotta, special guest contributor [8 minutes]OWL ~ (mystery of the night) ~ with improvised colored gels & sound by Eros & Lullady [3 minutes]
+ Deliquescence ~ (a double layer of marine flowers & aquatic erotics) with Richard Sylvarnes, on electronic shadows, an Eros original olfactory cinema with perfume scents ~ [9 minutes]
This program opens Reel Ecologies: Films for a Sustainable City Outdoor Festival from September 10 – 13, 2020In partnership with The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) Contact: lepetitversailles@alliedproductions.org/(212) 529-8815
BIOS
Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad media: experimental film & video, collage, photography, performance, sound, text, installation, expanded & contracted cinema. Also a curator, designer, researcher, composer & investigator. Concepts include: ephemeral cinema, erotic psyche, Optipus, subterranean science, cinema povera, poetic accidents, fragmentstein, musique plastique, Ocula, narcolepsy cinema, vampirates, metaBody, The Owl of Minerva, Artaud-Butoh, Mushroom Archive, Velvet Hermetic System, Oysters of the Id, & Black Hole Cinema.Eros is a mediamystic maverick, who prefers the night & the perfume of eau de cinema.
LuLLadyBio I make paintings, collages, films, digital videos and installations, in all of which I am aiming to explore the many possibilities that are either invisible or ignored. I conceive of my long-term project as the creation of a utopian zone, an instrument-as environment, a musical-influenced structure, that is part sonic architecture and part social sculpture, a combination of prepared instruments or found sonic objects that are also interacting with projections & performance. Conceptually, I perceive it as a platform in which to critique my social milieu, as well as to record and respond to my nightmares and visions. I intend to create an alternative site where creativity and ideas can cross boundaries so they can be exchanged and connected. My visual work and performances have been exhibited or shown at Greene-Naftali Gallery, David Zwirner Gallery, NYU, Tufts University, SUNY at Purchase, Children’s Museum of the Arts, Columbus Theater (Providence), Here Theater, Knockdown Center, Knitting Factory, Radiator Gallery, Harpy Gallery, CFCP Gallery, Secret Project Robot, Elsewhere, TransPecos, Synesthesia, Sunview Luncheonette, the Abasement series at Max Fish,Downtown Music Gallery, The Glove, and various other venues. I sometimes play secret shows at public spaces in New York City.
Website: www.lullady.com
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