NO WAVE FESTIVAL
Curated by Treasa O’Brien |
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No Wave
No Wave is term now given to a loose collective of musicians, filmmakers, and hanger-outers that cross-pollenated in New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1970s. Ireland’s experimental filmmaker Vivienne Dick started making her first films within that milieu, and has been called the ‘quintessential No Wave filmmaker’ by Village Voice critic Jim Hoberman. No Wave films were characterised by a DIY aesthetic, an anti-establishment politics and were first shown in the clubs where many of the musicians who acted as cast were performing. |
This festival will take place over a weekend in CFCP and feature screenings of little known and hard to see films by Vivienne Dick, James Nares, Bette Gordon, Eric Mitchell, Beth and Scott B and others. Plus a documentary Blank City made in 2009 about the whole scene.
The festival will include live performances by key No Wave bands, James Chance (of the Contortions and Lydia Lunch (of Teenage Jesus) and more. Concerts will take place offsite but may be complemented by more intimate sessions in the CFCP space.
Developed in collaboration with LUX, Treasa O’Brien, Vivienne Dick, James Chance & Lydia Lunch. |
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