STRANGE SCREEN FESTIVAL - MONILAZARISTON, THESALONIKI, GREECE- 24/05/02 - see www.monilazariston.gr/gr/events/strange_screen.htm for details of the festival (mostly in Greek) Go to the bottom of the page for Hannah's pictures

OMSK programme (24/05/02)

10.00 - DJ Hannah MissintheMix (giant white bunny rabbit plays obscure 45s)
10.30 - films

• The Man With Two Eyes (Massimo Garlatti Costa. 4mins)
• I Make Things Happen (Steven Eastwood. 6mins)
• Cows (Louise Camrass. 5mins)
• Sound Effects of Death and Disaster (Rob Hardy and John Rowley. 10mins)

11.00 - JIGOKU - DJ Lovely Jon astonishes with macabre trash video
12.00 - films

• Red Shift (Emily Richardson. 4mins)
• The Three Theories of Vernis Canoot (Louise Stevens/Greg Pope. 4mins)
• Faulter (Tom Kirk. 7mins)
• Kinderspell (Steve Connolly. 7mins)
• Lofoten (Greg Pope. 3mins)

12.30 - DJ MissintheMix until the end

Cinema into the Real - Scoring Lazarist (Steven Eastwood) A specific film space will be constructed on the Lazarist festival site. When passers-by enter that space, lighting and a range of looped film score moments are triggered. Seering violins (think of 'Vertigo') might accompany a couple embracing; brooding horns and percussion become a backdrop to a man who sits on the steps... Audience members unwittingly become implicated in cinematic incidents, or in a narrative frame. The piece draws attention to how we refer to cinema in describing the events in our lives. It foregrounds how the everyday can be viewed as a set of narrative exchanges and recollections, or as a series of roles played out. Cinema then becomes a model for a real in which all is performance and everywhere is a set.

JIGOKU Jigoku (the Japanese term for hell) is an extreme, chaotic audio visual soundtrack session created by East End London DJ Lovely Jon, whereby deep, dark movie music is cut up alongside wild footage from weird and obscure exploitation flicks in perfect timing. Originally starting life in the early 901s as a celebration of strange cinema and a reaction against mellow chill out music in the backrooms of raves (freaking out all the clubbers trying to relax or 'come down') Jigoku has forged on, working alongside art/cinema pranksters OMSK in pre-famous Hoxton and Italian soundtrack legend Alessandro Alessandroni for two sell-out shows at London1s Institute of Contemporary Arts.

OMSK Technical Specifications: We would need:
2x video projector,
2x slide projector,
record decks (2 x technics 1200 plus headphones),
monitor,
3x vcr playback,
1 x beta SP player,
PA system, microphones,
2xvideo screen (large and medium),
1 x 4 channel mixer,
2x portable lights (red heads preferably),
1 x mini amplifier,
2 x cd player,
2 x torch.

Level 3 Screen area

Level 1 Side area (+ coffee area) - Mona Lazariston

Level 2 side area - Moni Lazariston

Hannah's photos from Thessaloniki

Our hosts:
Christina ("Comedy")	Ioannis a.k.a. John ("Tragedy")
(Sorry guys, it's just the way the pictures turned out...)

Setting up at Moni Lazariston
Steven setting up Scoring Lazariston	Steven and Lovely Jon in Thessaloniki
Hannah outside a pancake cafe	Lovely jon and Greek John
Hannah MissInTheix in the hotel lobby	Christina's sister

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