“This WORLD is UNREAL like a SNAKE in a ROPE” by Robert Millis
“A collage of sights and sounds from the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. A trip through the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, free jazz nagaswaram improvisations, impossibly loud cities, processions, devotion, blessings, color, abstractions, detail, music and more. India is impossible to know: it is too vast, too rich and too much of a dream, it is impossibly old and impossibly new. Offered here is one perspective, one dream, subjective and flawed, hanging by a thread, captured live and in the moment and in the midst. One journey revealed in the order it happened. Not quite ethnography. Not quite documentary.”
Says director Robert Millis: “I will introduce the film and have informal Q and A at the Merch table after the screenings. These are the premier screenings of this film (which is still a work in progress) which should be released on DVD by Sublime Frequencies some time next year. I purposefully prefer to do screenings like this in music/sound/DIY oriented venues rather than more formal movie houses. It fits the vibe of the film.”
Each night, Mills will also do a solo performance involving found sound collage, drone, and field recordings mixed with songs performed on acoustic guitar: old murder ballads, originals and instrumentals. Here is a link to a solo release from last year: http://www.etuderecords.com/120.htm
Robert Millis is a musician and artist, a founding member of Climax Golden Twins and AFCGT and a frequent contributor to the Sublime Frequencies and Dust-to-Digital record labels. His previous films include Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan and My Friend Rain and he was the co-author of Victrola Favorites, released on Dust-to-Digital in 2008.
Prices vary per venue, many are donation or sliding scale $5-$10; in most cases screenings will be first, followed by music. Check with venues for full details.
OCTOBER 6
Flywheel
http://www.flywheelarts.org
43 Main Street
Easthampton, MA
8;00pm
OCTOBER 7
Spectacle
http://spectacle.nu
17 Edinboro Street 3rd Floor
Chinatown
Boston, MA
8:00pm
OCTOBER 8
Upstate Arts Guild/Albany Sonic Arts
http://www.upstateartistsguild.org
247 Lark Street
Albany, NY
8:00pm
OCTOBER 9
Casa del Popolo
http://www.casadelpopolo.com
4873 Boulevard St. Laurent
Montreal, Canada
9:00pm
OCTOBER 10
Teranga African Restaurant
http://www.toronto.com/restaurants/listing/521392
159 Augusta Ave
TORONTO, ON
8:00pm
OCTOBER 12
Now That’s Class
http://www.myspace.com/nowthatsclass
11213 Detroit Ave
Cleveland, OH
9:30pm
OCTOBER 13
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
http://www.pghfilmmakers.org
477 Melwood Ave
Pittsburgh, PA
8:00pm
OCTOBER 14
Space 1026
http://space1026.com
1026 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
7:30pm
OCTOBER 23
Issue Project Room
http://www.issueprojectroom.org
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY
7:00pm
MORE INFO….
Robert Millis:
http://www.facebook.com/cecilbdemillis
facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117720628284641&index=1
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