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Layered projections of three individual pictures of people's face's in green over three images of people protesting in red.

True Fictions: New Adventures in Folklore

The Light Surgeons
Friday, September 14, 2007 at 8PM
Robison Gymnasium

The first public presentation of an EMPAC commission!

Recorded and shot in and around Troy, New York, True Fictions: New Adventures in Folklore is an eye-popping performance of epic proportions with projections on multiple over-sized screens that fuse documentary film making, live and electronic music, animation and motion graphics with innovative digital video performance tools.

Taking American folklore as a departure point, the UK-based Light Surgeons tackle the universal question of how our personal, political, and national myths evolve from subjective stories to widely held truths. The artists guide the audience through this terrain with a live collage of documentary footage, interviews and music recorded in Troy and across the rest of the state of NY—from Troy’s Uncle Sam’s Day Parade to a cramped music studio in Brooklyn to an upstate Native American reservation and more. 

Dates + Tickets

Film/Video
Music/Sound
Performance
Commission
True Fictions: New Adventures in Folklore
The Light Surgeons
Friday 14
8:00 PM
September 2007
Discipline
Contemporary Performance

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Funding

This performance is supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts.