Atman

OnOff

A superb weird gear experimental film from 1967 which I discovered via John Coulthartt's often inspired weekend links. Retina gloopage of the highest order. Enjoy.

Sonic Cineplex

Next weekend, an unusual film and music event entitled Sonic Cineplex will take place in the dark and cavernous railway arches underneath Glasgow.  Featuring a host of musical luminaries such as Jeff Mills and Dieter Moebuis, I'm particularly looking forward to lending an ear and eye to Andy Votel's [Finders Keepers] and Sean Canty's [Demdike Stare] film and tape hiss project Neotantrik. Oh, and if you hear a little oddball jazz and wonky electronic music echoing through the arches - that might just be me spinning an odd record or two.

Neotantrik

...... not sure if this is in the public domain yet but here's a short piece of flickering light and private press electronic tape hiss by Neotantrik [Andy Votel, Andy Rushton and Sean Canty]. Enjoy.

Zaklon

A slowly evolving experimental film by Croatian cinematographer Vladimir Petek.

Direct Super 8 Workshop

Ian Helliwell

A Sound Awareness is delighted to invite you to a Glasgow weekend of curious electronic oscillations and retina poppin' filmwork by audio visual artist Ian Helliwell. Hope you can all stop by and say hello.

Outer Space

Get Set

As a little teaser for the upcoming film and performance happening in Glasgow this month, here's a short film by audio-visual artist Ian Helliwell. More details to follow soon.

Baume Im Herbst

Photothèque Imaginaire De Shuji Terayama

Serene Velocity

The Graphic Work Of Destroy All Monsters

Formed at a house party in 1973 and playing their first gig at a comic book convention (where they were asked to leave after ten minutes), Destroy All Monsters [DAM] were a multi disciplinary art collective from the Ann Arbor area of Detroit. Comprising of artists, Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Niagara and film maker Cary Loren they were responsible for the proliferation of a vast array of acid soaked visionary art across a wide range of media including paintings, prints, sculpture, film, performance art and of course music. Influenced equally by the avant garde and Sci-Fi B-movies their work oscillates somewhere between the sublime and the ridiculous.

This book gathers together all six issues of Destroy All Monsters Magazine, a self published art ‘zine which was originally published between 1973 – 1979.

To the contemporary eye, many of the images in this book form a strange and disorientating synthesis of proto punk aggression, hippie mysticism and Warholian canniness. Despite much of the work being over thirty years old, much of it still feels contemporaneous and would not seem out of place in the shelves of your local purveyor of retina candy. Visually, the book combines a visceral punk cut & paste aesthetic with stoner chutzpah to create a rather oddly formed mixture of Looneyville high art. Imagine an ecstatic wunderkabinett of discarded visual ephemera recombined into an oozing mass of Day-Glo psychedelic visual gloopage and your halfway there. Densely layered collages compound consumer culture kitsch with aggressive counter culture subversion resulting is an explosion of hallucinatory misprint and sensorial overload. This book is a joyful graphic noise and very much worth your attention.

A facsimile reprint of the Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979 is out now published by Primary Information.

Phantom 1975

Aldo Tambellini

Micro-Insect Cinema

The lovely music posted here made me think of this. An experimental visual menagerie of insects, arachnids and minute arthropod life, seen through image and sound.

Objection 1974

Filmstudie

Colori Della Luce

Liquid Loops