The Eye of the Pilot
Where: , The Corner House 29 Forman Street NOTTINGHAM NG1 4AA
Date(s): 12/10/06
Time(s): 7.00pm
Cost: Free To book, call NOW at 0115 915 8626 and quote “Addictive TV”
Remixing the fantastic personal archive of French airline pilot Raymond Lamy, filmed during his travels in the 1950's, The Eye of the Pilot is an aerial travelogue in music and visuals with an original soundtrack by leading DVJs Addictive TV featuring live guitar from French composer Alejandro de Valera.
Interwoven with stylised interviews with Lamy, the original footage, digitally re-mastered, is re-worked with graphics to a new, live soundtrack featuring de Valera’s custom-built fretless guitar. The visual and musical journey takes us to places such as Karachi, Ivory Coast, Saigon, Tahiti and San Francisco at a time when travelling with a home movie camera was still revolutionary.
This is a rare glimpse into the beginnings of a world that we all now take for granted, where camera and international travel are constant bedfellows. Using images from Raymond Lamy’s private archive alongside creative multimedia tools and modern aesthetics, this live cinema performance integrates the tail end of colonial times with today’s hi-tech, fusing more than just music and images as it evocatively brings to life film from over half a century ago.
"Addictive TV are irresistible” The Big Issue.
“If there ever was a truly ground-breaking bunch of guys in the VJ world, it's certainly this lot” DJ Magazine.
Voted #1 VJs in DJ Magazine's first worldwide VJ poll, Addictive TV are the London based producers and DJs/audio-video artists who've been championing the art of the VJ and pushing it into mainstream media for a decade now, with their TV shows, DVD projects, performances and with the Optronica festival which they run with the BFI National Film Theatre in London.
Performing their audio/visual shows internationally, criss-crossing the art and club worlds, Addictive TV have played at venues from the Pompidou Centre in Paris to Tokyo superclub Ageha, and at festivals including the UK's Glastonbury and Denmark's Roskilde. They played New Years Eve 2005 at India's first superclub Elevate and later that year a South East Asian tour taking in Bangkok in Thailand and Shanghai in China.
Programme
Addicitve TV perform at Optronica at the National Film Theatre.
