[Rumori] People Like Us playing in Toronto this Saturday

[Vicki Bennett]

http://www.imagesfestival.com/

Saturday April 24
 9:15 PM
 
Innis Town Hall, Toronto

Admission $12/10 for students, seniors and members

A legend has been building through word-of-mouth about Daniel Barrow’s 
unique performance work. We’re bringing him back to Toronto to pair him 
with People Like Us – the mad archivist of live cinema – for an evening 
of quirky, off-kilter multimedia performances.

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The Face of Everything
  Daniel Barrow | Canada | 40 min. | manual animation | 2002

Over the last ten years, Daniel Barrow has been developing the art of 
“manual animation.” Using an overhead projector, Barrow manipulates 
cartoon images printed on mylar transparencies in a new type of cell 
animation, accompanying his two-dimensional minions with a live 
monologue or, in the case of the Hidden Cameras’ “A Miracle” video, 
good old-fashioned pop music. The Face of Everything follows the 
flowering and deflowering of youth, as a young boy gets whisked away to 
riches by the welcoming, and ornately ringed, fingers of Liberace. 
Barrow will be on hand to carry the young buck through his adventures 
and ordeals.

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People Like Us
  UK | 30 min. | live audio/video performance | 2004 | Toronto Premiere

“Intelligently bringing out… the hidden reverse of deceptively simple 
bits of film, [these] tongue in cheek musical pastiches are at their 
most bitingly incisive as the soundtrack to the films. Don’t miss this 
great multimedia project as it hits its stride.” – Rob Young, The Wire

Although archivists might warn that digital technology and historical 
preservation don’t quite mix, Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us, has 
made a career out of the latent potential of both. A master 
manipulator, Bennett sutures exquisite corpses using old ephemeral 
films, worn LPs and the most recent tools of electronic music. She is 
the Umberto Eco of Rick Prelinger’s Internet Movie Archives, lost 
forever in the library stacks, but still managing to send back 
pastiched missives to the outside world – hers are strange and humorous 
audio collages.

  But it is in her live performances that she really shines. Not content 
just to provide visual wallpaper or rapidly cutting strobe effects, 
Bennett samples sound and image simultaneously, layering them into a 
richly detailed live collage – “a living cinema.” A visual musician, 
Bennett pulls everything into the mix, from industrial advertising to 
old B-movie Westerns and mental hygiene films, and comes out with a 
toe-tapping audiovisual stew. Heir to Negativland, Mary Shelley and the 
UK’s tradition of Scratch Video, she is a unique hybrid in the 
electronic music scene, and a busy one. She hosts a weekly radio show 
on WFMU New York and releases a record or CD every few months, 
including collaborations with Matmos, Wobbly and fan favourite Kenny G.

  
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JOIN US after the performance for our closing night party and awards 
ceremony at El Mocambo, 464 Spadina Ave, with multiple projections by 
blankfoto projections (Blaine & Ross Spiegel).