Ōtepoti's Lines of Flight experimental music festival has been running for the last two decades. In 2011, an Auckland film crew documented the three-day festival, held at Chicks Hotel and the Anteroom in Port Chalmers. Long awaited, this is the premier screening of the film in Pōneke.
On the film, Director Stephen Sinclair writes: "As a film maker, I came to it from a visual perspective... I thought that the multifarious soundscapes would make a great accompaniment to whatever visual images we could conjure up.
So with good friends Grant and Bryce Campbell I got on the road and drove on down to Dunedin. On the way we filmed whatever caught our eye: German bi-planes at Peter Jackson’s aviation museum in Blenheim, a group learning how to scuba dive in Kaikoura, shags coming home to roost on the old wharves at Oamaru. All of which contributed to the imagery of the film.
…we had two humble camcorders which had night vision functions, allowing us to video the acts in greys and sepias. It turned out to be fortuitous, as the grainy impressionistic quality of the video was entirely suited to the music, and vice-versa.
A big thank you to the organisers of the festival, Peter Porteous and the late and sadly missed Peter Stapleton; to all the artists who made this film possible; to Al Pettitt who conducted many of the interviews; and to the Campbell brothers who handled video and sound. Grant Campbell is really the major creative on this project: his inspired edit gave the film its shape and coherence.”
Last year, Lines of Flight festival co-organiser Peter Porteous wrote a major personal history of the hugely influential festival for our website.
Following the screening, a Q&A will be led by Grant Campbell
Opening the film will be music from two local experimental artists Sophia Frudd and Ritual Heaps.
Ritual Heaps is psychic defence music. Durational synth fortifications from Whanganui/Te Awakairangi
ritualheaps.bandcamp.comSophia Frudd is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Te Whanganui A Tara, under the pseudonym of 'Indigogue Browne'. Riddling practical gore-concoctions in multi-media film, with chaotic semi-improv full of synths, noise, and movement.
meandrel-momentos.tumblr.com
swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/swamp-soul-one-2
Tickets available through Under the Radar
Special thanks to Creative NZ for supporting Pyramid Club's programme
