{"product_id":"cst056-jem-cohen-empires-of-tin","title":"CST056 Jem Cohen | Empires Of Tin","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) takes place in October of each year. For the 2007 edition, New York filmmaker Jem Cohen was commissioned to close the festival, which he did with his program entitled \u003cem\u003eEvening’s Civil Twilight In Empires Of Tin\u003c\/em\u003e. This piece, inspired by Joseph Roth’s novel The Radetzky March, is a meditation on the decline of empires, juxtaposing images from the twilight stages of the Hapsburg empire and WWI with footage from present-day Vienna and Cohen’s hometown of Brooklyn, NY, where he traces his own visual meditations on the twilight of American empire. An impressionistic narrative is constructed through live readings from the texts of Joseph Roth, and a live musical score performed by Vic Chesnutt, members from The Silver Mt Zion, Guy Piciotto (Fugazi), and The Quavers. The music includes improvisations, wonderfully blown-out interpretations of Strauss’ “The Radetsky March”, and bracing renditions of a number of Vic Chesnutt songs. The result is a sort of agit-prop hallucination, a string of film vignettes bound by the poetry of Roth’s writing and by the sounds and songs of the live musicians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 2007 film performance was recorded (audio and video) by the Viennale. Video footage of the live event was then combined with Cohen’s original film footage and edited in Vienna by Jem. The live audio was mixed at the Hotel2Tango in Montreal by some of the participating musicians. The resulting DVD is a politically charged and unique hybrid of concert and film – a document of a very special multi-media performance, and one hailed as one of the highlights of the Viennale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpires Of Tin\u003c\/em\u003e was co-released on DVD by The Viennale and Constellation. It received its premiere screening at the 2008 Viennale. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACKLIST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eSponge - CHESNUTT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eWorld War One - PICCIOTTO\u003cbr\u003eDistortion - CHESNUTT\u003cbr\u003eDer Gasn Nigun - AMAR\/MOSS (SMZ)\u003cbr\u003eWhat He Is And What He Ain't - CHESNUTT\u003cbr\u003eSound Collage - PICCIOTTO\/GRIFFIN\u003cbr\u003eCoward - CHESNUTT\u003cbr\u003eChoir Invisible - COHEN\/GRIFFIN\/TOTH\u003cbr\u003eWall St. Flag Improvisation - AMAR\/CRAVEN (SMZ)\u003cbr\u003eBlanket Over The Head - CHESNUTT\u003cbr\u003eBrooklyn, Silesia - THE QUAVERS\u003cbr\u003eRustic City Fathers - CHESNUTT\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"DVD","offer_id":56361830973732,"sku":"vrc1789925130782","price":10.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2772\/3044\/files\/cst056-jem-cohen-empires-of-tin_1.jpg?v=1789925134","url":"https:\/\/burtprimehub.shop\/products\/cst056-jem-cohen-empires-of-tin","provider":"burtprimehub","version":"1.0","type":"link"}