"TRUTH MOVEMENTS" is a short documentary film taken from The Light Surgeons Live Cinema performance TRUE FICTIONS.
The film weaves a tangled web of conspiracies theories, divergent views and public oratory, from the 5th anniversary of 911 together into a escalating argument about truth.
Contrasting two points of view: the protesters or "truthers" who want to re-investigate 911 and those who oppose their intervention outside the memorial on this national day of morning. The conversation flits from person to person as the exchanges of opinions become increasingly passionate and emotional. A group of US marines berate a crowd who proclaim that 911 was an “inside job”. Their heated exchanges reveal how this defining event is still being fought over and will continue to be manipulated for different political motives.
The film is scored with a track created during the TRUE FICTIONS project (see earlier posts for how this process came about) and includes a building vibraphone melody, live drums and an Oud solo by Mavrothi Kontanis.
All the video footage, stills and interviews were recorded at ground zero by Chris Allen & Rob Rainbow on the 5th anniversary of 911 in 2006.
The film and TRUE FICTIONS project is produced & directed by Christopher Thomas Allen
Audio arrangement by Tim Cowie & Mark McRae
Edited by Chris Allen, Tim Cowie & James Price
TRUE FICTIONS continues to tour with shows coming up at the Loop Festival, in Brighton and in potentially a show in Belfast in July as well. We are hoping to arrange a big show in New York in the autum.. Stay tuned.
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The Light Surgeons - Over the past ten years the UK based art collective The Light Surgeons have developed and pioneered their own unique style of live mixed media performance.
After providing visuals for many live music acts they have pioneered new directions in filmmaking and live audiovisual performance.
Creating groundbreaking projects such as “APB - All Points Between” and “The Z-Axis”, The Light Surgeons have blurred the boundaries between filmmaking and musical performance and toured their acclaimed productions internationally.
These shows have developed a form of audiovisual journalism that fuses music and storytelling by way of recorded interviews and fragmented narratives in combination with improvised live manipulation of video.
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Empac - The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center - is a place and a program, where the arts challenge and alter our technology and technology challenges and alters the arts. Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, empac is an arts institution that draws strength from being part of a great research university.
It operates nationally and internationally: attracting innovative artists, both renowned and emerging, from around the world; offering artists, researchers, and audiences opportunities that are available nowhere else under a single roof; providing unsurpassed facilities for creative exploration, and for research in fields such as visualization and movement capture; sending new artworks onto the global stage.