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ADULT performing live soundtracks (TONIGHT)

ADULT

Detroit electro band ADULT have one upcoming show which happens to be taking place TONIGHT (10/28) at Anthology Film Archives in NYC. More details below…


POSSESSION(S) from ADULT. on Vimeo.

ADULT

Coming up at:
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003; (212) 505-5181

SPECIAL LIVE EVENT!
the Three Grace(s) triptych
3 inter-tangled films by ADULT.

Thursday, October 28 at 9pm

Detroit electronic duo ADULT. presents original film
and live soundtrack performance that is completely
unavailable on the internet, video or dvd!

Detroit electronic duo ADULT. will be presenting a unique evening of original film and live soundtrack performance. ‘the Three Grace(s) triptych’ is the completed two-year affair of artists Nicola Kuperus & Adam Lee Miller, an unorthodox film trilogy which does not conform to the traditional trilogy format, but instead suggests a version of Jean Cocteau’s surrealist ‘Orphic Trilogy’ in which horror iconography has taken the place of the original’s Greek mythology.

The approximately 95-minute presentation consists of three back-to-back, interconnected short films. The first is the silent-experimental-horror mirage DECAMPMENT (2008), which follows a woman’s transmigration from her ‘past’ life into a new society full of deceit and fable. The second chapter, TRADITIONS (2010), follows two young female friends and their matriarchs, all with unknown (and unchosen) inheritances, down four crossed paths. The trilogy concludes with the brand-new POSSESSION(S) (2010), a dark and claustrophobic installment which simultaneously completes and ignores the narrative triad with doubles.

‘the Three Grace(s) triptych’ was written, scored, filmed, edited, and directed by ADULT. members Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, and will be screened with ADULT. performing the soundtrack live on either side of the screen. For anyone unfamiliar with ADULT. (or with this specific project), the film (and its soundtrack) is in the spirit of John Carpenter (and Alan Howarth), Dario Argento (and Goblin), or Kenneth Anger (and Bobby BeauSoleil).

‘the Three Grace(s) triptych’ was filmed entirely in Michigan, and incorporates the well-known photographic style of band member Nicola Kuperus, and the unusual discomfort of ADULT., as well as their signature musical sound. ADULT. have released albums on both their own Detroit label Ersatz Audio and the seminal Chicago label Thrill Jockey.

ADULT. has worked hard to make sure this film has not slipped onto the internet (as there are no DVD or streaming versions at this time), thus making the evening a very special event in an era when everything else seems ‘accessible’.
-Thursday, October 28 at 9:00.

Tickets are still available.