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Astro Black: We are the Robots (2010)
An episode in Soda_Jerk's multi-channel digital-video installation cycle entitled "Astro Black". We are the Robots re-imagines the iconic scene in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), where sci-entists use a synthesizer keyboard to communicate with an alien mothership. In Soda_Jerk’s revision of these events, Kraftwerk play sequences from their own music and the mothership responds with frag-ments of tracks that have sampled Kraftwerk. This jam session– between the original and sampled ver-sions of Kraftwerk’s music–explores the impact of German electronic music on Afrofuturist sonic culture.
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-video,
imdb.astro-black,
imdb.mash-up,
imdb.hip-hop,
imdb.montage,
imdb.collage,
imdb.video-collage + 28 more,
imdb.sampling,
imdb.extracts-tribute,
imdb.archive-footage,
imdb.afrofuturism,
imdb.art,
imdb.robot,
imdb.remix,
imdb.multi-channel,
imdb.reference-to-star-trek,
imdb.planet,
imdb.outer-space,
imdb.space-travel,
imdb.found-footage,
imdb.art-installation,
imdb.compilation,
imdb.compilation-film,
imdb.film-history,
imdb.film-clip,
imdb.nostalgia,
imdb.reference-to-james-bond,
imdb.time-based-art,
imdb.music-sampling,
imdb.video-art,
imdb.video-installation,
imdb.avant-garde-short,
imdb.reference-to-a-cult-film,
imdb.experimental-short,
imdb.underground-short
Runtime: 7 min.
Released: Jan. 1, 2010
Digital Release: Jan. 1, 2010
Status: Released
Certification: NR
