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The Italian Report




The view from behind the mask reveals more than the eye can see.






Some sequences of the Hazmazk Anthology where shot over a three week period in Italy at various sites that house ancient Etruscan and Roman ruins. Much of the focus was on statues and in particular, a two thousand year old wall that bares the scars of time.





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Available only from the Embryoroom Shop to coincide with The Italian Report, a triptych of 3 limited edition prints and an exclusive video download.

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Kuvaputki's Italian premiere will be at
The Milan Film Festival
on the 19th of September, 2008 at 10:45PM inside the Sempoine park and in the event of rain it will be screened on Friday the 19th at the
"Scatola Magica" room in the Teatro Strehler.

From the Milan Film Festival,

Kuvaputki
, by Edward Quist, belongs to a different genre again, so essential and hypnotic that it seems to go back to the origins of filmmaking: the bare, pure graphic representation of the steady beat of music.

Kuvaputki, Finnish for 'cathode ray tube', started as a documentary and evolved into a brand-new kind of a music film. Menacing and hypnotic, ranging from intensely minimal, to sensory assaulting, abstractions are sometimes interrupted by visions of the duo trapped in the vacuum of the cathode ray tube.








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KUVAPUTKI REVIEWS REVIEWS FROM ITALY


Dagheisha writes,


I don't think I'm mistaken when I say that probably not even the shy Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen believed that they could achieve results like these by producing a DVD. In this era of technological stasis, it is still possible to satisfy any visual demand. Moreover, products like these have surpassed themselves time and again, becoming increasingly important players in the music industry. Nonetheless, Edward Quist has managed to create a real jewel of "counter-animation." In Finnish, "Kuvaputki" means "cathode ray tube". Sure enough, the American artist has allowed the New York performance of the two Finnish industrial engineers' Round the World Tour to be sucked into a black hole of an imaginary emotional cathode.It's roughly 40 minutes in which Pan Sonic's essence is rendered with the utmost drama, and the music seems to be the only way out of a slow and inexorable path towards absolute nothingness. The visual experimentation is extreme and magnificent, and hopefully this effort will become a point of reference over the next few months for other, similar publications.--
review by Divine

Article in Italian.

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Rapporto Confidenziale
has a review of Kuvaputki and Hazmazk at the Sonar Festival on page 62. Click below.



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Nick Maritte has posted images from the Sonar Festival screening on Flickr, as well as Pan Sonic performing live at the event.



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NME has picked up on a lo-fi clip from Kuvaputki and has it posted in it's video section.




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Nebeklam, a Czech site, features the review of Kuvaputki from "boomkat."




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E-djs says,

The American artist Edward Quist is the person behind the direction of first audiovisual release of Finnish Pan Sonic. In collaboration with Derek Gruen of Scissor Sisters, culled from the peculiar sound experiments of Finnish duo it undertakes the visualization of the “incessant” low frequencies of Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen. The idea of Kuvaputki was the creation of a documentary that would present peculiar live appearances of Pan Sonic. “The undertaking proved not to be an easy affair,” says Quist. “The sound of Pan Sonic has a very intense natural presence, the world of images that is presented in the DVD began to emerge through this aspect” adds the American director. “The idea was developed as a complete graphic synchronization with the live sound of Pan Sonic. From there the film developed further. The final result resembles more of a audiovisual narrative, which the characters, through the multiple stages of cathodic process have life, and live in the screen” explains Quist. “In substance we could say that we accomplished visual remix of a Pan Sonic concert”. This process is really impressive as anyone who watches the DVD will realize. The black and white film unites exceptionally with the sound world of the Finns capturing the spectator. While Kuvaputki is a high quality effort, it would not be an exaggeration for it to be characterized as a real work of art.

Article in Greek.


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IDFLD, writes of Hazmazk,

"
BEWARE: THE VIDEO IS VERY SCARY - I ALMOST COULDNT WATCH IT."
-from the Scissor Sisters fansite.

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