is this in new york?

and I wanna see black dice.

the first time I saw AC five or so years ago, they opened up for Black Dice

Please come out and support Anthology Film Archives through this years Save our Films Benefit concert with live performances by Animal Collective, Black Dice and Ken Jacobs, and films by Vanderbeek, Yalkut, Mekas, Olvey & Brown and much more!

Thanks,

Lili Chin
AFA Benefit Concert co-ordinator

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Anthology Film Archives Presents
A Save our Films Benefit Concert

Featuring live performances by

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
BLACK DICE
KEN JACOBS NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN

$14 advance
$16 day of show
Friday, March 26th 2004
Doors open at 8pm
Tickets available at Anthology Film Archives and Other Music

On Friday, March 26th, as part of the continuing Save Our Films Benefit Concert Series, Anthology will be holding a rare evening of live film and music. This event, a fundraiser to preserve its vast collection of avant garde and independent film, includes performances by Black Dice, Animal Collective and legendary avant garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs.

Departing from past Save Our Films Benefit Concert presentations, this concert attempts to further explore the numerous possibilities between image and sound by bridging generational gaps to present an atmosphere of audio-visual harmony. The participating bands extended their involvement by personally selecting these films and performances to be showcased together with their live accompaniment.

Animal Collective, with their recently re-released album Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished / Danse Manatee on the Fat Cat label receiving rave reviews by The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Wire, and several others, will be playing a live accompaniment together with films by Jud Yalkut, Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek and more. Each film selected for their set embodies an inherent visual rhythm that relates to their musical endeavors. Animal Collective’s performance will conclude with a personal, rarely screened favorite of band member Avey Tare. The Tempest by Olvey & Brown. These Seattle based principal E.A.T. members collaborated with sculptor Doris Chase and worked on all the color-timing for Stan Vanderbeek's films. The Tempest won the first competitive State's grant of $10,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to "advance the art of filmmaking in the Northwest", garnering international recognition with screenings on national television. The film, having been
pulled out of circulation due to color fading of the prints, has only been seen in its pristine glory as part of the traveling program. This evening will include the unveiling of this film in a brand new print, and the first time it will be screened with music other than its original The Tempest by Beethoven. (with the live accompaniment of Animal Collective.)

Black Dice, with acclaim ranging from such outets as The New York Times to Frieze magazine, have been creating an international underground stir. Past performances at art spaces such as the Andrew Kreps Gallery and the Swiss Institute, align them with the New York art world. Notorious for their history of aggressive live performances that challenge sound barriers, their music has grown to a state of spatial complexity, creating a sea of electronic bass tones, altered vocals, percussion experimentation and abstract guitar drones. Ben Ratliff of The New York Times raved “To see four musicians coming together and making this kind of serrated, urban piping in a glen – and the members of Black Dice have become accomplished at it – is a little weird, and more than a little compelling.

Ken Jacobs is widely regarded as one of the most original and radical American filmmakers. From his early immediate films through to deep spatial investigations, from live action shadow plays to the amazing nervous system, he has continually reinvented cinema in a unique manner. - Mark Webber

This evening he will be demonstrating his Nervous Magic Lantern performance in a special one time only collaboration with Black Dice. The Nervous Magic Lantern is an acute display of images created by manipulating the projector with filters, a cooling fan, a spinning shutter to generate 3 dimensional landscapes with 2 dimensional flatness. This optical/ audio experience will be a rare opportunity to enter the outer limits of cinema juxtaposed with the sometimes abrasive, other times soothing, always innovative and erratic nature of Black Dice’s music. “Silent dream worlds are okay but I'm up for passing mine through others. Tonight it's Black Dice and The Nervous Magic Lantern set to interpenetrate Ken Jacobs

Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Ave. at Second Street and can be reached by the Second Avenue F train or the #6, Bleecker Street stop.