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HC Gilje: CityScapes DVD
HC Gilje, who lectured about his instrumental work with live visual performance at the Generator.x conference, has just released a new DVD. The CityScapes DVD is published on the French Lowave label, and features 5 films in Gilje’s signature dreamy style.
Gilje’s release email says the following:
The videos have been made over a period of 6 years, starting in Hong Kong in 1998. This is why we chose to do the release event in this city on november 4th at Habitus, a small artist space overlooking the Hong Kong Harbour.
The videos:
hkmark1 5 min, 1998. Video: HC Gilje, Audio: HC Gilje
Crossings 4 min, 2002 Video: HC Gilje, Audio: Jazzkammer
Shiva 8 min, 2003. Video: HC Gilje, Audio: Kelly Davis
Night for Day 30 min, 2004. Video: HC Gilje, Audio: Jazzkammer
The DVD is available through the Lowave website: www.lowave.com as well as www.amazon.de and a number of specialty shops around the world including the ICA bookshop in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Previous releases by HC Gilje:
242.pilots: Live in Bruxelles, Carpark, New York, 2002. Received the image award at Transmediale03 in Berlin. 242.pilots is HC Gilje, Kurt Ralske and Lukasz Lysakowski.
Blind: Live recordings 2004, Audioframes, Cologne, 2004 (DVD-R). Blind is HC Gilje and Kelly Davis.
For more info go to my website www.nervousvision.com.
About the label: Lowave is an independent DVD label with the objective of discovering and promoting contemporary film and video art. Its ambition is to create a new marketplace for the work of cutting-edge artists and filmmakers, under recognized by the traditional distribution channels, by making them accessible to the public via the DVD format. With DVD, cutting-edge independent film can finally find its audience.
242 pilots!!!
Yeah, HC was one of the original 242.pilots. I think they’ve disbanded the group now, but Kurt Ralske has been doing some nice projects with Trond Lossius. Blind, which is HC and Kelly Davis, did a very nice set at the Generator.x concert.
I’ll have to look into those. Kurt is always doing wonderful things, like for instance, his Auvi objects for Nato and Jitter.