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Fri, Aug 22, 2014, 20:04
- The film was scored by Underground Resistance, and that group's Ray 7 and Gifted & Blessed will perform at the event.
Artist Edgar Arceneaux's A Time To Break Silence, Underground Resistance And 2001: A Space Odyssey will premiere in LA on September 6th alongside performances by UR's Ray 7 and Gifted & Blessed.
In the film, Arceneaux draws meaningful connections between Martin Luther King's Vietnam speech and the release of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey one year later. The art movie is set in an abandoned Detroit church and Underground Resistance's techno score comes in at intervals identical to that of music during a Catholic Mass.
Ray 7, who has released music on UR as Unknown Soldier, appears in A Time To Break Silence and he'll be traveling to LA to perform live at the afterparty. Gifted & Blessed, a Southland producer who has released music on Wild Oats and Eglo under various aliases, will spin at the event. He's recently been living in New Mexico and working with New Age veteran Steve Roach.
The screening and music will occur at the Underground Museum and is presented in conjunction with Arceneaux's gallery opening at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. The party is presented by Black Radical Imagination and L.A. Club Resource-affiliated collective Gene's Liquor.
Dazed interviewed Arceneaux about the film, the connections between Detroit and LA and techno earlier this year.