Blog : The Von Crapps Are Here.....

The Von Crapps are here.....

Otherfilm and Audiopollen Social Club presents.....

All the way from wonderful Wollongong.....

"Hallelujah! The Von Crapp Family is blessing Brisbane this Easter with their unique vision of Family Values. More popular than discouraging your son from eating too much chocolate by allowing someone to nail his hands down, this family supports values like blasphemy, weird music, broken guitars and stupidity.

Friday April 6th 7pm-10pm.
Von Crapp Family Last Supper... "A drink with jam and bread (and wine and fish and chocolate)"A Dadaist noise banquet featuring sonic interventions, films, wayward disciples, betrayal, abandonment, a sermon, a crucifixion...
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Monday April 9th   7pm-10pm
Von Crapp Family Resurrection... "I'm not dead: Zombie religion."
A second Dadaist noise banquet featuring more sonic interventions, more films, more dirt, grubs, a miracle, a special appearance by Satan and a masterclass on Zombie religion.

Artists include:
The Von Crapp Family (Friday and Monday) as your sacreligous hosts...
6Majik9 (Friday) as a gaggle of satanic heathens...
Judas Yeldham (Friday) complete with amplified coin pouch...
Cait Foran (Monday) as the heavenly immigration officer...
Reverse Jesus (Monday) blessing you for his sins...
Blank Realm (Monday) as infidels attempting to fill the void...

Crucifixion/Resurrection Film Program (all projected on 16mm):

 Captain Celluloid Vs the Film Pirates: Satan's Coffin; Silent parody of matinée serials about the evil exploits of a black marketeer in illegally copied films.

A Contemplation of the Cross; Australian artist Michael Lee's abstract re-enactment of the Crucifixion.

The Hunting Spiders; 1920 Pathe stencil scientific film about killer spiders.

Judith of Bethulia; D. W. Griffith's 1913 biblical story of Judith who saves her people from the invading Assyrians. Flashbacks, long shots, spectacular crowd and battle scenes and various revolutionary pictorial and psychological effects.

Fantabiblical; 1977 Italian animated science fiction satirising biblical stories.

King of the Jews; Jay Rosenblatt uses Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and religious films spanning the history of cinema, to explore the roots of his childhood fear of Jesus Christ.

Both banquets catered by 'There's A Hair In This!'

Friday April 6th and Monday April 9th, 7pm-11pm
Ahimsa House, Gallery Space, 26 Horan St. West End, Brisbane
Discount Tickets $15 (both nights including dinner) $10 (one night)
More details / RSVP - www.halftheory.com / joel@otherfilm.org

Von Crapp reviews:
"... the night belonged to the Von Crapp Family. Gary Butler, whose business card states his profession as 'guitar, toys and stupidity' plays his guitar with all sorts of found objects such as egg beaters, chopsticks, radios, ping-pong balls, twigs, toothbrushes, socks and files. His sons, Daniel, 8, and Lee, 14, mindlessly bash away on the drums and read from the Bible, while his wife, Cathy, makes fart noises with her tongue and whizzy sounds with toys. For the finale, Butler hacked apart a guitar with a pickaxe. He may have looked like a serial killer, but this was about controlled chaos." (The Age, 23  Feb 2004, rev. of Melbourne "What Is Music? Festival)

"BIZAM! All up in my grill with a confrontation with what I think were the Von Crapp family who had a kid in industrial earmuffs, a mum in vocal pain, a dad in overalls and a powerdrill v guitar and their 'brother' golfing an old Apple into 'musical' death. I called my mum to tell her I love her." (BRAG, 26/03/05 rev. of Sydney "What Is Music Onathon")

http://www.myspace.com/voncrapp

read an interview with Mr. Von Crapp in Time Off Magazine:
http://www.timeoff.com.au/index1.php?area=core&pg)&subarea1&selQ81

Added by joel on 3 April 2007