Salvatore Arnoldo

Catie Cloutier

A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

Gaining ideology from their last album Disco Volodar, the short film uses the core theme of space. The short film is filmed at Unit 3 Regents Trading Estate, the usual area for Sounds From The Other City.  Using the philosophy of avante garde pioneer Maya Deren ‘one must at least begin with the body feeling’, the films opening is of the four piece standing atop of the hill in the Pendle countryside. This quickly melts into a warped reality and lands you into the POV of a camera and trapped in a liminal space where you see a band in session.

To break in their new studio, EMPRESS, Castle Atom performs four songs and give us a glimpse behind the scenes of how they record. Songs include: "Years of Blood", "Where Have You Been", "Farewell My", and a previously-unheard track, "Hey-E".

Lights flicker &amp; fade as focus shifts from artificial to natural light, ending on a second artificial light speeding through the blackened miasma of the night sky.

Sourced entirely from YouTube, converted and edited using Windows Media Maker. A comprehensive list of video credits is available at pointnever.com  Root Strata, 2009  Pro-duplicated DVD-R in a slimline DVD case with translucent colour cover and transparent insert.  Limited to 250 copies.

Trite, closed memories flagrantly bleed into profuse openings mixed &amp; held together by retaliatory colorations &amp; obfuscations.