EXPANDED CINEMA performances with K/S/R, JOHNNY WOODS, and a. stone + opening short film MASPETH IS AMERICA (with live accompaniment)
+K/S/R "2022-2023" 2xCD release show!
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K/S/R plays "Already in Heaven" (free improv trio, 4x 16mm & 35mm projectors + live sound)
JOHNNY WOODS plays "necropotence" (doom drone + hi-con b&w film projections)
a. stone plays "transinfinite" (talking / tapes + hi8 camcorder projections) with opening short: Maspeth is America (new super-8mm film by Ben Kujawski w/ live musical accompaniment feat. Helen Pinch on violin & Kujawski on accordion. Filmmaker in attendance from NY)
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K/S/R (the trio of Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith, & Justin Rhody) have been recording & performing expanded cinema works & since 2021. The trio have previously performed at Other Cinema, Highlands University, Shapeshifters Cinema, UNM, The Firehouse, and the Light Matter Film Festival - and their music was recently featured on the legendary Coast to Coast AM radio program. In 2025-26 K/S/R will be releasing a 5" vinyl record, a split cassette, & a full length LP. Performances are being planned in the Midwest & East Coast USA, along with a tour in Japan. ***This event doubles as the release party for K/S/R's new Double-CD!
Johnny Woods is an animator & musician living in Pecos, NM. Necropotence combines sundry audiovisual aesthetics from occult rituals, black metal, & new age philosophies in an attempt to summon ancient nature spirits for a liturgy of forced rebirth.
Maspeth is America: A semi-fictional working class lamentation captured on the outskirt industrial areas of NYC. Photographed on gritty B&W Super 8, the film reverberates the sentiments of a worker grinding away another day in a never-ending cycle of generational labor.