IDEOPLEX: STRAIGHT FROM ID TO YOU

“THESE FRAGMENTS I HAVE SHORED AGAINST MY RUINS.”
– TS ELIOT

PEOPLE OFTEN ASK ME: WHAT IS MY CURATING STRATEGY AT MUFF? ID, BABY, ID. WHATEVER LURKS IN THOSE DARK RECESSES OF THE MIND, I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT, THINK ABOUT AND SEE. SO I HAVE CURATED A MUFF DIRECTOR’S SPECIAL SELECTION FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS, THE HIDDEN, THE ‘REAL’, THE WHATEVER THE FUCK “ID’ IS. ID’LL BE A GREAT SELECTION. GET TO ID THIS YEAR AT MUFF’S REVOLUTION NUMERO 9. YOU WON’T REGRET ID. I COULD GO ON ALL DAY LIKE THIS…
CURATED BY RW’S ID

ATROCITY EXHIBITION
Directed by Peter Weiss
9pm / Fri 10 Oct / Noise Bar
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This 2001 adaptation of the JG Ballard experimental novel is a brilliant film by US filmmaker Peter Weiss that captures the heart of the book perfectly. Join Travis and his team of wacky psychotherapists as they explore uncharted realms of the Id. Traven is the central character who constantly switches his name to others beginning with T. He’s the T man. The central motif is the mental breakdown of Talbert, who is a psychiatrist trying through insane means to make sense of our insane world. The book is a masterpiece and the film is not far behind. Be sure to join Talbot’s journey into the space between walls and the geometry of fucking Ronald Reagan in the back of JFK’s assassination vehicle weapon. If this all makes no sense to you … you’re beginning to get it.

VINYL
Directed by Andy Warhol (60 mins)
7pm / Sat 11 Oct / Glitch Bar
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Andy Warhol directed the first version of “A Clockwork Orange” in this rarely screened film. Starring Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick and many Factory players, Vinyl is classic Warhol 60’s filmmaking. It is a must see at MUFF 9.

DAY NIGHT, DAY NIGHT
Directed by Julia Loktev
7pm / Sat 18 Oct / Glitch Bar
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Julia Loktev’s “Day Night, Day Night” is a tense meditation on terrorism. We join a female suicide bomber as she prepares for her big moment of glory. She is surrounded with hooded men who train her and teach her survival techniques. Interestingly, they all have US accents that sound like they come from Langley, so it adds a certain non-Arab dimension to it all. She is some form of terrorist, but for whom? The film is brilliantly shot in a formalist style and is chilling in its repetition and claustrophobia. Amazing filmmaking, “Day, Night, Day Night” is a blast!

SRL LABS: TEN YEARS OF ROBOTIC MAYHEM
Directed by SRL/Jon Reiss
9pm / Fri 17 Oct / Noise Bar
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Mark Pauline’s “Survival Research Labs” is an amazing art collective from SF that creates huge, monstrous, bizarre robots and machines that do battle with each other or interact at specially held SRL events and/or films. Ten Years is a collection of some of these shows and films. With titles for shows like “ A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief”, “A scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain” and “The Delusions of expediency: How to avoid responsibility for social disintegration by acting without principle under the pretenses of utility”, you know your in for a treat. Stupid TV shows like the UK Robot Wars copy SRL, but these guys are the original, dangerous crew of Ballardian mayhem makers. Mark Pauline, SRL head Fuhrer is a fascinating figure. He blew off his hand in an experiment 20 years ago and now has a claw. When the SF art scene reacted badly to Boyd Rice’s turn to fascism, Pauline apparently didn’t blink an eye. There are also those rumours that during the LA riots, certain SRL members went down to lend a hand, with flame throwers, setting fires and causing mayhem... of course this is just a rumour. But the idea of the LA riots conceived as giant SRL art project? That I like the sound of! Art should be violent, destructive and a ‘real’ part of society, an ‘event’ in the Heideggerian sense, in a way that polite white walled galleries and champagne drinking socialists just don’t get. I would like to see a gaggle of Pauline’s machines tearing up the next Oz film industry function. “A Joyful Harvest from the Blood of the Incompetent” could be a good title. What do you all think? These are amazing films. Do not miss!

GOD SPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR
Directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi
9pm / Mon 13 Oct / Noise Bar
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You know the cool Canadian band, now see the film. God Speed you is about a group of Nazi Japanese biker gangs told in moody black and white and all set to rockin’ music, directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi. This film follows the exploits of a Japanese biker gang, the Black Emperors. 1970s Japan saw the rise of biker gangs, known as Bōsōzoku, which drew the interest of the media. The movie follows a member of the bike gang and his interaction with his parents, after he gets in trouble with the police. A rare treat of a hard to obtain film. Don’t miss out!