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| Bruce Calvert... |
 Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:17 pm |
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http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/hubcap_city_drive_in_potemkin/Content?oid=500564
Hubcap City: Drive-In Potemkin
Experimentalists give Sergei Eisenstein an overdub
Published 06.18.08
By Abi Berwager
Hubcap City performs at the Opal Gallery40
484 B-2 Moreland Ave. Free. Sat., June 21. 7:30 p.m. 678-717-8890.
www.theopalgallery.com.
When Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein completed his 1925 silent film
Battleship Potemkin, he wanted a new score for the film to be composed every
10-20 years to maintain the film's relevance.
Eighty-plus years later, Hubcap City has composed an original score that the
band will play live in the parking lot of Opal Gallery in Little Five Points
while the film is projected onto the gallery's front window.
It's all about taking a stand, according to the band's wry frontman, Bill
Taft. "Doing this in a parking lot is an inversion of power," he says. "We
are taking away the power of cars and making it a place for pedestrians. It
goes with the film's theme of revolution and fighting back."
Eisenstein was one of the first directors to use montage editing. By
carefully piecing multiple frames together he created a strong sense of
emotion and tension in the film's narrative. The collision of shots was used
to manipulate the audiences' emotions.
Likewise, Hubcap City's music is a collision of sounds, and incorporates
montage by using a variety of instruments thrown together. The reverberation
creates a raw, emotional sound. Like montage film editing, the random sounds
produce a larger picture. Some instruments that will be used during the
performance include a cornet, a saw, a starter pistol and a shruti box to
set the tone for the film.
"We're really going to play around with Eisenstein's montage ideas,
especially montage with conflict," Taft says. "We went for universal
anti-oppression themes: the sounds of an Irish hanging ballad and some of
the early American sounds of slave spirituals, along with someone banging on
your door."
Apparently, Eisenstein's Russian revolution translated all the way to Hubcap
City. "The movie is bigger than one region," Taft says. "We can keep the
fight going. This is about a revolution!"
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Bruce Calvert
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