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Big Screen Brutals @ Bangface Weekender

This week we visit the glow-stick-glittered shores of North West England for the Bangface Weekender. We’ll be joining the raved-out pranksters from Chin Stroke Records who are co-presenting the festival TV programming with Network Awesome. What excellent company!

Featuring the following BSB programs:

  • Kultur=Kaputt
    Jamming culture until it’s broken. Our selection of brutals from Emergency Broadcast Network, Negativland, People Like Us, Church of the Subgenius, St Sanders, and the very bloody depths of the copyright infringing internet.
  • The Crazy Cult of the New World Church of Creepy Crackpots
    Join us! For a journey through your future-past lives as is only possible with the latest of consumer electronics technology. A rapture of eternally saving channel-surfing, where the gods are crazy and self-ordained priests offer you spirituality at special prices in a blasphemous mix of parody and reality.
  • Glitch Is Fucked
    Get ready for epileptic blasts of computer graphics; rainbowing mushrooms of data corruption; analog synaesthesia processes; documents of pseudo-science; propaganda for non-existent conspiracies; classic early-internet viral weirdness; found videos from unknown sources; and maybe the odd cartoon.

The full program:

12 April 2016 - Categories: Events, Tags: breakcore, electronic music, screening, TV.

The Superusers – Kompressions of False Mechaniks in a chamber of 3D Hard Light


The Superusers’ present ‘Kompressions of False Mechaniks in a chamber of 3D Hard Light’ – an installation for multiple 3D projectors and stereo sound. This video is from the premiere of the installation at Festival Gamerz, held at Fondation Vasarely (Aix-en-Provence, France) in November 2015.
https://thesuperusers.com

27 January 2016 - Categories: Blog, Tags: 3D, audio-visual, glitch, installation, synaesthesia.

Big Screen Brutals – 6 December 2015 @ Spektrum – The Crazy Cult of the New World Church of Creepy Crackpots

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/530018787167663/

Sunday 6. December 2015
Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00

“Spektrum”
Address: Bürknerstraße 12, 12047 Berlin-Neukölln
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/pXHDV
Transports: U8 Schönleinstraße

The Crazy Cult of the New World Church of Creepy Crackpots

This edition of BSB is all about religion. And conspiracy theories. Weird ones. Caught on video.

It’s true what they say: god is everywhere. From the heights of Hollywood to the far recesses of the internet, rest assured the old man in the iCloud is sending us preachers of questionable character; failed doomsday predictions; holy hoaxes; and unrighteous rituals from shadowy elites. And yes, most of them are American.

Whether you believe that we are all descended from benevolent alien beings or noble advanced yetis, we can all agree that we love to put on glitter and exploit cheesy outdated video effects. Yes? Join us! For a journey through your future-past lives as is only possible with the latest of consumer electronics technology. A rapture of eternally saving channel-surfing, where the gods are crazy and self-ordained priests offer you spirituality at special prices in a blasphemous mix of parody and reality. Can you tell the difference between a fanatic cult leader who just wants to get into your pants and a nerdy prankster/animator who just wants to get into your pants?

All praises to the Goddess! I mean, she looks just great in that sequined dress…



“The Crazy Cult of the New World Church of Creepy Crackpots” playlist:

Zontar Video – Perverse Preachers, Fascist Fundamentalists and Kristian Kiddie Kooks – 1991
Negativland – Christianity Is Stupid / The Mashin’ of the Christ – 1987/2004
Godstuff – L’Chaim To Life Telethon
Bill Maher & José Luis de Jesús – Religulous – 2008
Marjoe Gortner – Marjoe – 1972
Neal Israel – Tunnel Vision – 1976
TZII – Roaring Pope
People Like Us – Discovering Electronic Music – 1999
Necromancy – 1972
Shaye Saint John – Washroom
Necrophagia – Manson Meditation Tape
Becky Sloan & Joseph Pelling – Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 3 – 2014
Raëlian Movement – Peaceful Revolution
Unarius Academy of Science – The Arrival
Bill Kates & Alex Aurichio – The Incredible Invisible Visualizer
John Safran – John Safran vs God – 2004
Le Dernier Cri – Les Religions Sauvages – 2004
Matt Anderson – Illumicorp
Emergency Broadcast Network – Nirvana
Breatharian Yogi – Freedom
Yoga Ghost
Raëlian Movement – Elohim Embassy, Embassy for our Creators, the Elohim
Church of the SubGenius – Arise! – 1992
Unarius Academy of Science – Creativity for AVAM
The Carpenters – Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft – 1976

Presented by Big Screen Brutals and Spektrum.

25 November 2015 - Categories: Events, Tags: Berlin, crazies, low attention span, media parody, music video, psychedelic, random weirdness, screening, trash, TV, VHS, web vomit, Youtube.

Big Screen Brutals – 30 August 2015 @ Spektrum – Glitch Is Fucked

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1630319683892960/

Sunday 30. August 2015
Doors: 19:00 / Start time: 20:00
Free entrance

“Spektrum”
Address: Bürknerstraße 12, 12047 Berlin-Neukölln
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/pXHDV
Transports: U8 Schönleinstraße

The first edition of BSB at Spektrum will feature two different sets of connected short films:

1. “Glitch Is Fucked” (see below for playlist)
… or should that read ‘Glitch Is Fucking Great!’? We’re not sure. Herein we will explore those visions which will either glorify or lay waste to the so-called Glitch Movement. Get ready for epileptic blasts of computer graphics; rainbowing mushrooms of data corruption; analog synaesthesia processes; documents of pseudo-science; propaganda for non-existent conspiracies; classic early-internet viral weirdness; found videos from unknown sources; and maybe the odd cartoon.

2. “Music is Fucked Too”
It’s a lot like the first one, except you can nod your head and talk if you want to.

May your video life contain flashing lights!

Presented by Big Screen Brutals and Spektrum.
https://halftheory.com/bigscreenbrutals/
https://spektrumberlin.de/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q52HV6A1RT0

“Glitch Is Fucked” playlist:

UCNV – Crashed Universal
Guillaume Vallée – Tzara I
Woody Vasulka & Brian O’Reilly – Scan Processor Studies
V-Atak – Anti
Takeshi Murata – Pink Dot
Jim Crutchfield – Space Time Dynamics in Video Feedback
Teddy Lasry – Challenger
Brenna Murphy – skyeye
Crazy Dave Tape – DRUGS
The Divine David – Television
Le Dernier Cri – Les religions sauvages
Botborg – To Bypass a Sensory Roadblock
Threee Geniuses – Jon
Daniel Leyva – FAKE+GAY
Guadaloupe & O. Chatté – Spermadroïd
Sgure & Sekitani – Anulus Pexie
Princesse Rotative – M.Gunt Junior
Shaye Saint John – TWENTY4SEVEN_REDUX
Ouananiche – Anti Love
jonCates – Moviestorm Machinima Audition Tape TX VRSN
Module VXD – Acadesrevenge
Devin Flynn – Y’all So Stupid #4
Crazy Dave Tape – DON’T KNOW
The Superusers – Every Interpretation of Maxim
KOKOFREAKBEAN – GOD KNOX
Crazy Dave Tape – WHAT
Autotune Fail

24 August 2015 - Categories: Events, Tags: animation, appropriation, audio-visual, Berlin, brutal, electronic music, glitch, internet RIP, low attention span, music video, noise, psychedelic, random weirdness, screening, strobe, synaesthesia, trash, video art, web vomit.