Black and White Trypps Number One

Movie
Audience Score
63
Black and White Trypps Number One
NR 6 minTRYPPS #1-7 PosterPart of TRYPPS #1-7
A night sky fills with light shimmers and flecks surface markings heavenly bodies Its an ocean a well a screen a mirror a portal Blacknessvoid cluttered by growing ephemera Dark reaches of outer and inner space gradually sifts through shards of granite and diamonds The mind races as the material becomes greater and more frenetic reaching a nearly audibly grinding pitch of excitement flurry and instantaneous infinity that ebbs at first and then maintains Flashes of color emerge or are imagined Chaotic flickering of dancing peasant girls and violently twisting astronaut helmets Layers of sea slime over undulating life forms Bonfires and celebration Explosions construction Holocausts Primordial ooze modern civilization Ages and seconds Floating heads circle kaleidoscopic bursts of shiny beads Everything everywhere twists forces through transforms into overlaps everything else JT Rogstad The International Exposition TIE
DirectorBen Russell

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Black and White Trypps Number One on the Web:Official Website

TRYPPS #1-7

“Using a fabricated Old English word as its guiding principle, this ongoing series of (mostly) 16mm films is conceptually organized around the possible meanings that its title elicits - physical voyages, psychedelic journeys, and a phenomenological experience of the world. Begun in 2005 in a somewhat vain attempt to hold cinema up as a mirror to the live and fully embodied reception of the crazy noise music scene in Providence, Rhode Island, the TRYPPS films quickly expanded their formal and critical language to include the various poles of action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy, global capitalism, and trance-dance a lá Jean Rouch. While the form of these works varies radically from one to the next, when taken as a whole they can be seen to enunciate what their maker calls "psychedelic ethnography" - a practice whose aim is a knowledge of the Self/self, a movement towards understanding in which the trip is both the means and the end.” – Ben Russell