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PSYCHEDELIC PRIMATES

Brooklyn's Monkeytown hosted this midnight screening of scattered visions. Marianna Ellenberg, Bradey Eros, and Cartune Xprez each curated hour-long sections of the program. All in all, the audience exposed their synapses to a vast cross-section of videos including work by Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Oskar Fischinger, and Michael Robinson (not to mention the selections we showed)!

VDEO LYNE-UP

Bruce Bickford
INVERSION LAYER (EXCERPT)

A fast-moving pencil line-animation in which Bickford relentlessly transforms human figures and faces into peculiar beasts, burgers, and other oddities.
Eric Dyer
COPENHAGEN CYCLES

Using a vast assortment of hand-made zoetropes, Dyer pieces together a fluid portrait of his home.
E*Rock
TRIFORCE MINDPHAESER

The big bang in 10 minutes.
Adrian Freeman
SHAME FELLOW
A red-striped warrior demonstrates a simple transformation.
Hooliganship
SUPER SELLODY

Self consuming pop starts playfully meditate on a their own spectatorship via cell phones.
Timo Katz
WHIRR

A cookie-cutter subdivision is cut up and reconstructed in a string of digital beats.
Amy Lockhart
TELL MUMSY I LOVE HER
This is what happens when the Hollywood filter is taken off Canadian culture after 100 years of fermentation.
Takeshi Murata
CONE EATER
A hypnotic Rorschach assault of melting colors that mesmerizes your cones and rods.
James Sumner
I WILL TRUCK

A single movement displaced from the Dirty Projectors' animated opera about Don Henley.
Ola Vasiljeva
MICHAEIL JACKSON TEACHING BIRDS TO SING

Taken from a 5-part portrait of MJ, this chapter reveals the pop stars magical ability to commune with nature.