Throughout the Melbourne Festival, our little rabid crew are turning our day jobs into night and day jobs and shooting a couple of dozen short films with visiting artists and performers. We've already finished a couple - on Russian Art superstars AES+F, on Tom Tom Crew, photographer Daniel King - and many more are underway. But last night, after 12 hours of cutting, I went out to film with a favourite band of mine who are also guests of the festival: Mono.
Hear them now, as you read and look.
These Japanese instrumental superheros are as incredible onstage as they are in their recordings. Staged in the dimmest of light (making filming hover around the borders of impossible), they create, from stillness, a slow transcendental build to chaos and disorder. It's perfect. And I watched people weep while feedback roared from the speakers, so they are clearly doing something right. Hearts. Darkness. Perfection.
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