R D Zurick
Emails from Bangkok
Featuring Ashley Tate, Anna Lum, Robert Fishbone, and Ricky Heenan
Sunday, Mar. 28, 2010 – 7:30 pm
Winifred Moore Auditorium
470 E. Lockwood
Co-sponsored by Webster Film Series
Admission: $8 regular, $5 seniors/students
R D Zurick has been working in experimental film and video for four decades. He’s shown locally at the Pulitzer Foundation and Webster Film Series, and internationally throughout Thailand and in Shanghai.
Emails from Bangkok, co-sponsored by Webster Film Series, is a multimedia event that features live dance, music, and tai chi, in which Zurick pulls together a talented array of St. Louisans for an evening of spectacular visual and sonic art. Additional collaborators include dancer Ashley Tate, tai chi master Anna Lum, musician Robert Fishbone, and an ensemble to play ethnic Thai music assembled by ranad ek player Ricky Heenan. Zurick will show a total of 5 videos, including two North American premiers: Meditation on Maeya; PANSiAM*; Blue Khmer; Ballet Penile*; White Wat (* indicates North American premier screening). PANSiAM will receive its world premier on January 17, 2010 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center.
Conceptually, Emails from Bangkok arose from Zurick’s quest to connect with two, very famous, Thai artists: Khun Chalermchai and Bruce Gaston. On a 30-day journey to Thailand in 2007, Zurick sought a meeting with the artists to ask their permission for the use of their work on a video he was creating, entitled White Wat (which will be shown in Emails from Bangkok). Over the course of his travels, Zurick wrote three emails to friends in the United States which documented his journey. These emails will be used as a narrative, read by Zurick live during the event and interspersed between films.
In Zurick’s words, “My videos grew out of a musical relationship with film as I held out for film far too long. I finally succumbed to video at the turn of the millennium when I could see the musical possibilities not with rock video but with the computerized editing systems…I have always seen film like music and my movies were really single-framed epics that corresponded to the beats of music I would then later apply.
The young Thai musician Ricky Heenan will create live accompaniment to open the show on the ranad ek, along with fellow musicians on hand drums, and ching. Ashley Tate, Artistic Director of Ashleyliane Dance Company, and a Grand Center Visionary Award Recipient, will accompany Meditation on Maeya with live dance. Anna Lum will serve as projection screen on PANSiAM as the film’s images are displayed on her body. Finally, local multi-instrumentalist Robert Fishbone will create live music on electric dulcimer for Ballet Penile.
We hope you will join HEARding Cats for this special evening of film, music, and dance that’s sure to raise STRANGE and WONDERFUL questions…
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