The Parasitic Fantasy Band:
Live ephemeral expanded cinema and ecstatic 16mm/8mm film and sound performances
All the way from New Zealand, deep down in the South Pacific Ocean.

Between multiple film projectors, bending mirrors, light fracturing objects, organic materials, gongs, electronics, field recordings, resonating strings and space’s emerges an ecstatic engagement of the senses. An activation of the space around you and the inhabitants sharing that space with you with light and sound, that and the possibility of stepping into a new ephemeral territory of existence and explorative perception, exotically alien yet fundamentally familiar.

The Parasitic Fantasy Band have performed their modified multi-screen 16mm works, structuralist light refractions, phasing optical illusions, ecstatic colour tapestries, pseudo-anthropologic mystic fictional direct film story telling, kinetic alchemical rhythms, hypnotic flicker dreams, trapeze interventions with narratives blueprinted from the life cycles of migrating sea birds…. At venues as diverse as cinema houses to scummy city service alleyways, art galleries and museums to outside in the Outback desert of Australia.

They have recently produced a short experimental 35mm film (Blue Tide, Black Water) that has successfully toured multiple film festivals in the states having received a couple of awards.
But its without a doubt their live performances and dynamic live screens that are were its at for the Parasitic Fantast Band where they try to open up the possibilities of cinema as an active, energetic and truly experiential platform for engaging with people, minds and imaginations with live instrumentation, activations and interventions, droning resonating strings on projectors, textural electronics, computational story telling and forest field recordings hand collected from the Amazon jungles of South America.

“like cannibalism sanctioned by the highest authority”

They have also exhibited installations in galleries and have had various singular film works screened around the world in film festivals, galleries and film programs including a current exhibition in NYC at the Puffin Room Gallery.

Cinematic reference points for our work would be luminaries such as Metamkine, Guy Sherwin and the London Film-Makers Coop, Tony Conrad, Len Lye, Harry Smith and Australia's Arthur and Corrine Cantrell and Abject Leader. Most of whom we have been excited to personally work or be involved with in a number of ways from collaboration, hosting, perform with, screen works of, or do workshops with.

We are also active organisers and curators of contemporary and some historic experimental film activity in Auckland. We curate the New Zealand International Film Festival's only experimental film and live cinema program "FPS" and a grass roots independent experimental film and performance festival The Cinema Ascension Festival. We have close ties to the New Zealand Film Archives, The Screen Innovation Production Fund, Creative New Zealand, the Starving Artists Fund, and plenty of other independent experimental film and music people, artists and communities throughout New Zealand, Australia and parts of the US and Europe such as San Francisco, Boston, New York, LA, Chicago, France, Italy, Spain, London, Berlin and Tokyo.

but right now where on tour in the USA!!! 9 shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York fucking City!!!

Etc, etc, etc… blah, blah, blah…. We love to do what we do
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Sam Hamilton
samukun@gmail.com
(64) 021 032 1842

Eve Gordon
Eve.m.d.gordon@gmail.com