About I Am The Mighty Jungulator
I Am The Mighty Jungulator (IATMJ) are a hybrid arts collective with a diverse portfolio of innovative projects. They won best new electronic act at the 2004 Diesel New Music Awards, and have presented cine-sonic spectacles at Bath International Music Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Tate Britain, The Science Museum and The Big Chill to name but few. Their generative audio-visual systems have shown at prestige arts festivals and enabled production of community portraits with young people at risk of social exclusion. They have re-scored classic zombie films for multi-platform mystery tours, remixed Shostakovich's 6th Symphony in octophonic sound and appeared with legendary children's television personality Basil Brush.
CURRENT PROJECTS
HAMMERFEST: Technology, Being and the Search for Self
Re-imagining the films of RW Paul in Heideggerian Context
IATMJ have been commissioned by Cinema Jean Vigo Bordeaux, to re-imagine the work of early British film pioneer R W Paul, for their annual Cine Concerts series.
A collaboration between I Am The Mighty Jungulator and writer Stephen Ireland, Hammerfest is an innovative re-imagining of the films of English silent-cinema pioneer, RW Paul. Taking as source material the British Film Institutes' collection of 62 short films and re-configuring them into a new hybrid film, accompanied by a live IATMJ score, Hammerfest explores Paul’s work in the context of the environmental crisis, the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and the folk-tale Snow White. Ireland’s narrative simultaneously tells the story of Tunte and Techné, workers at the Snøhvit gas liquefaction plant in Hammerfest, Norway.
Hammerfest fuses performance with document, featuring live narration and Kosmiche musical accompaniment, to develop Paul’s work into a metaphor for humankind’s narcissistic relationship with the natural world. Rendering human beings’ seemingly fatal embrace of technology as a theme that blurs and transcends fictional boundaries, Hammerfest is an unique blend of film, philosophy, literature and music.
Hammerfest world premiere - 23.05.08 Rock School Barbey Bordeaux
Hammerfest UK premiere - 8.06.08 Venn Festival, Arnolfini, Bristol.