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Music from The Keystone Cut Ups

by People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz

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Hats 03:44
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Statues 03:15
3.
Thelma Todd 04:48
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Machines 02:25
5.
Aquopalypse 04:30
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Chess 02:19
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Magic 05:14
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Spinning 03:19
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Moon 04:21

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The Keystone Cut Ups is a live performance that combines video-collage with an original musical score, created using sampling and live instrumentation, to explore the aesthetic, contextual and stylistic relationships between early silent-comedy and early avant-garde cinema.

Using the influence of slapstick comedy on the Surrealists as a starting point, the piece takes us on a madcap journey, combining the techniques and popular imagery of the two genres.

The Surrealists took to cinema easily, using it as a device to show their disdain for established artistic tradition. In their quest to liberate the imagination, they believed that the process of juxtaposing unrelated elements would create images of great emotional and poetic power. Thomas Pynchon wrote, “one could combine inside the same frame, elements not normally found together to produce illogical and startling effects”.

This DVD contains the original score and a side-by-side double image collage.

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released May 26, 2012

People Like Us, Ergo Phizmiz, Illegal Art

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People Like Us London, UK

Since 1991, Vicki Bennett has been repurposing pre-existing footage to craft a/v collages, seeing sampling as folk art in the age of mechanical reproduction, with all of the sharing and cross-referencing incumbent to a populist form. Embedded in her work is the premise that all is interconnected and that claiming ownership of an “original” or isolated concept is both preposterous and redundant. ... more

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