Inaugural Fundada Artists’ Film Festival Launch Programme Announced!
Eagle & Feather present KIPPLE: VHS Art for the Digital Age
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You Pigs present NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino playing live with Splitty McCheeks
Saturday 14th August, 2-4pm
Square Chapel, Halifax, UK
FREE ENTRY
FAFF continues 16th – 20th August
Part of Halifax Festival 2010
You Pigs present NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino playing live with Splitty McCheeks
The special guest performing with Splitty McCheeks at the FAFF Opening Event will be Hollywood based NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino. Barry plays 10 VHS video players hung round his neck projecting the mixed images through a digital projector strapped to his head. Barry will be flying over from his condo on Mulholland Drive, Hollywood, straight to the Halifax Square Chapel. Don’t miss this unique performer in his first UK gig.
Eagle & Feather present KIPPLE: VHS Art for the Digital Age
Kipple: A term borrowed from Phillip K Dick referring to the detritus of modern living that will one day overwhelm us.
“Kipple drives out nonkipple………No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot………the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Eagle & Feather: Julian Butler, aka Eagle, and Stephen Earl Rogers, aka Feather. Stephen is an artist working mainly as a painter. He is held in permanent collections in the UK and United States and has exhibited many times at the National Portrait Gallery. Julian is a film-maker and television producer. His work has appeared on BBC2, Channel 4, Sky, ITV and at the Edinburgh, London and Cannes film festivals.
Collaboratively, Eagle & Feather have been putting their own interpretation on the term kipple for a number of years. Through regular visits to charity shops, public libraries and jumble sales they have amassed a collection of absurdly peripheral and esoteric videotapes, selected for their distinct peculiarity.
Theirs is an attempt at alchemy, taking base material and transforming it, by various means – editing, manipulating, combining and reducing – into something that is imbued with new qualities – humour, drama, pathos and poetry. Turning kipple into non-kipple, at least temporarily.
http://www.smileorangefilms.co.uk/film_kipple.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/smileorange3
