METAL DRAGON

Since 1995 Metal Dragon has been providing a variety of creative services for independent film and music productions - ranging from music videos for independent electronic musicians, to slide and video installations for clubs, live events and festivals. M.D.'s visual and thematic material draws from a wide range of sources, having worked in the graphic arts in China, Korea, Japan, Australia, Siberia, North America, Canada, The Middle East, The Caribbean and most of Europe. M.D. films and videos generally allow the rich cultural mix and diversity of these backgrounds to speak for themselves, with little stylization except for simple colour enhancement and looping for more minimal electronic work. M.D. has screened in festivals like Darklight, Digital Film Festival, in Ireland, and Irish programmes in venues like Anthology Film Archives in New York, and institutes like the Contemporary Arts Centre in St.Petersburg.

3EM: Three Electric Monkeys

Having provided visual material for all the previous D.E.A.F. festivals, this year, particularly with the Asian theme, M.D. felt the festival was the perfect platform to ressurect an earlier, shelved project - a futuristic thriller adaptation of the traditional Chinese stories of the Monkey King. But in this instance the work also returns to a classic science fiction influence.

‘La Jetee’ ( “The Jetty” ) is a 28 minute science fiction film by Chris Marker, from 1962. It tells its story by using a series of still photographs playing out as a photomontage of varying pace with no dialogue and a narration consisting of voice-over. It was originally released as a support for Jean Luc Godard’s ‘Alphaville’, and is regarded as a minor classic, primarily because of its photo-montage technique.
One of the keys of M.D.'s adaptation of Monkey is that the story happens over three different time zones. So, the story has been adapted to be told in three separate photomontages, playing at different speeds, depending on which time zone they represent, the narration alternating the story between different screens and timezones. The work can best be described as a ‘carousel slide movie'. The three screens will also reflect the form of a free standing Tryptich, which has traditional connotations in terms of both European Art and Asian standing screens and wall hangings - 'makemono'.

The film '3EM: Three Electric Monkeys' will screen on the Archiver for the festival week.

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3EM Three Electric Monkeys

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