HOME > CINEMATIC VIDEO > CARRIZO QUARTET > BITTERWATER BLACKBYRD VIDEO FROM CARRIZO PROJECT CARRIZO QUARTET: BITTERWATER BLACKBYRD 2006 << Carrizo Quartet | Bitterwater Blackbyrd Still 1/8 >> Bitterwater Blackbyrd moves between two sites, a ruined well and cachepond in Bitterwater Canyon along the San Andreas Fault and a low income housing developmen along the main coastal freeway, 101, above LA. Memory of a lost stream world, premonition of instant slum; as if the blackbird's call comes back, again and again, from a deep future and past. Ambient sound competes against roar of a future urban street, a fluid stream of strange lament answers the blackbird. Shot in 24 p / on location central coast California. Video/photography and montage by Christina McPhee ©Christina McPhee/naxsmash group productions 200Soundtrack: original composition NEMIZ, by Pamela Z ©Last Letter Music (ASCAP). Screenings: “Abrasions: Architecture and Accident”, curated by Jessica Allee and Wago Kreider (program), Studio 27, San Francisco, November 17, 2006. Exhibitions: Carrizo Quartet, Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, Cartes Center for Art and Technology, WeeGee, Espoo, Tapiola, Finland, May 9 – September 5, 2006. With grant support from the American Scandinavian Foundation, 2006.

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