Burlington, VT PSST!3 Screening – April 9, 2009 at 7pm at Merrill’s Roxy Theater. After Party to follow at JDK Design.

New Englanders, Quebecois and anyone in the area tomorrow night, please come to the Burlington, VT screening of PSST!3.

PSST!3 Film Screening
Thursday April 9, 2009 @ 7:00pm
$5.00 (Includes entrance to after party at JDK Design)
Merrill’s Roxy Theater
222 College St
Burlington, VT 05401
(802) 864-474

Matchless Music and Tick Tick present, with support from Tag New Media, JDK Design, and the Magic Hat Brewing Company:

The Burlington, VT screening of PSST! 3: A Collaborative film series on Thursday April, 9th at 7:00pm at Merrill’s Roxy.

Tickets cost $5.00 and include entrance to the PSST! after party at JDK’s Exquisite Corpse gallery.

About PSST! 3

PSST! 3 is a brand-new series of 17 original collaborative short films made over the last year by over 175 participants in cities worldwide, including: New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta, Nashville, London, Glasgow, Paris, Vilnius, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, and Copenhagen. The films are each made in three parts, with different teams working consecutively on the beginning, middle and end. Taking the inspiration for its process from the Surrealist technique of Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game of Telephone, the PSST! films bring together diverse Artists, Directors, Designers and Animators to combine their work in an experimental format that encourages creativity and rewards the sharing and mixing of ideas.

The result is a glorious, chaotic mix of film-making and animation styles. A mash-up of stories and characters from art-stealing rabbits, Victorian-era lady astronauts, and faceless scientists to violin-playing schoolgirls. The results of artists being given a platform for creative freedom and permission to create without strings attached.

“Each team pours their imagination into a temporal slice of an unimagined whole. They do it primarily because it’s fun. But they do it also to remind themselves–and their peers–of what can happen when our normal routines are upended for the sake of creativity and collaboration.” – Justin Cone, motionographer.com (from Exquisite Corpse, an essay for PSST! 3)

PSST! 3 made its World Premiere Screening in Los Angeles on February 25th at the Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theatre. London, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago, New Orleans and Berlin are also hosting screenings.

PSST! is organized and curated by Bran Dougherty-Johnson of Grow Design Work. Burlington resident Ben Jastatt, of Matchless Music, wrote music for one of the films.

PSST! 3 Press Contact:

Bran Dougherty-Johnson
PSST! Pass it on…
psst@psstpassiton.com
631 749 1469

Burlington Screening Press Contact:

Graham Keegan
Tick Tick
graham@ticktick.org
802 540 0088

PSST! Pass It On 3

Matchless artist and founder, Ben Jastatt was lucky enough to write some music for one of the short films featured in PSST! Pass It On 3. We’ll have more details when the project is released later this month. For now, here’s the skinny on the project and a sneak peak…

PSST! 3 is a collaborative film project. 17 films are currently being made by 51 teams of Designers, Directors, Animators and Composers.

The mission of PSST is to produce original short films through the collaboration of different teams of designers, directors, and animators. Each film is comprised of three sections produced by three different teams. This process is the whole idea behind PSST! – a technique derived from the Dadaist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game Telephone and applied to the arts of motion graphics, animation and film-making.

PSST! is curated and organized by Bran Dougherty-Johnson of Grow Design Work. For more info, contact PSST!: psst@psstpassiton.com.

Check out the PSST! Pass It On 3 trailer below. (The music for the trailer was not composed by a Matchless Musician, but by the extremely talented Balun.)

PSST! 3 Trailer

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