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-40: Canadian Propaganda Films of the 1940s reworked Another fine brainchild from terminus1525 that provides emerging young artists (generally under 25) a chance to produce work, the –40 ("minus forty") project lets 20 artists (ten audio and ten video, three from each medium commissioned) remix and reinterpret 1940s propaganda films under the restraint of some interesting rules: sound-artists had to leave their film footage intact while video artists couldn’t alter their soundtracks. The musical results range from Akufen cutting up radio broadcasts and bomb whistles as WWII newsroom and battlefield footage runs, to Venetian Snares’ disturbing atmospherics playing over significantly more disturbing shots of disfigured veterans’ social reintegration, while the video work covers all manner of visual disintegration, from Matt Burke’s slow-motion focus on the funny mugs Hitler and Mussolini made, to Cinetik decomposing his footage to create a surreal dialogue with the soundtrack. Other musical contributors include Lowfish, DJ Dopey, hellothisisalex and Deadbeat. 01 - Knifehandchop - Divide and Fragment Remix.mp3 02 - Secret Mommy - You Choo-Choo-Choose Me .mp3 03 - Meek - Definitely Not Internment Camps.mp3 04 - Akufen - Dynamisme des ondes.mp3 05 - prhizzm - Ordeal by Ice.mp3 06 - DJ Dopey - Children From Overseas.mp3 07 - Lowfish - Action Stations.mp3 08 - Hellothisisalex - The New North.mp3 09 - Deadbeat - Trees That Reach The Sky.mp3 10 - Venetian Snares - The Guinea Pig Club.mp3 There's also a DVD with the video for these tracks, and another 10 videos that have original audio and reworked video. - they don't have anything up about it yet! It doesn't sound anything like Boards of Canada even though it was produced in collaboration with Canada's National Film Board. :-) |
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oops, ignore the mp3 extensions - I took the list from my Winamp playlist. But I bought the CD and DVD, really! I have merely ripped the audio disk into convenient mp3 format for my own personal convenience. Yes. |
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sounds interesting. nice idea for a comp. kind of makes it feel like a whole with the concept behind it. |
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Yeah the samples give it a consistent feel throughout, even though Lowfish does a Lowfish thing with it, and Akufen does his thing... I usually avoid compilations because they're so all over the place. The prhizzm track is lovely, and also the Deadbeat. "Mothers of England, we Canadians speak to you from across the sea. Send your children out to us. We'll see to it that they are safe and happy." - wow, Lorne Greene vocal samples. He was a CBC announcer before he was on Bonanza and Battlestar Galactica. |
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i should check this out as it would be nice CanCon for my radio show... plus i'd probably recognize a lot of the samples from having had to screen several of them Grierson-era films in my Canadian Film class |
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I think the most interesting thing about some of the footage from the propaganda films is the sense of helplessness. The camera just sits there stunned and gawking like it has no choice in the matter. This is most apparent in the Guinea Pig Club film, with footage of disfigured war veterans. The cinematography is so detached and alienated it's sociopathic. (the snares music adds to this of course) It's passive agressive filmmaking, the polar opposite of Leni Riefenstahl. So Canadian. |
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