As a VJ, Lester Alfonso will be upcycling videos from the Public Energy vault very soon. For its 25th Anniversary, he will draw from the 25 year-old collection to create visuals for a dance party. It’s all happening at The Theatre on King on May 25, 2019 starting at 10pm. (Buy tickets at publicenergy.ca) — Read More
Public Energy 25 (1min. 2019) A trailer for Public Energy's 25th Anniversary afterparty where Lester Alfonso will draw on 25 years of video documentation from Public Energy’s archives to create visuals for the dance party that will take the event into the wee hours. (photo: screenshot)
Plastic Anniversary Film (4:20 2019) Baltimore-based electronic duo, Matmos recently released an album called Plastic Anniversary with soundscapes created by using only plastic materials. For a video interpretation, the industrial films of the 50s and 60s on plastics were the obvious choice.
I took a shot in the dark in October 2017. I asked Matmos for permission to use their music for my film Birthmark. A rough cut of the film used their track called Sun on 5 at 152. It was a refrain at the beginning of each new chapter that I called “The Blinking Cursor.” — Read More