All Cats are Grey is the last film of Esther Planas that composes her trilogy of the films she produced as Vampire Tales.
With material from her previous films collaged to new sources. Inspired in the German Expressionist and
the film from Phantomas director, Feulliade: Les Vampires.
Melting the roles of Irma Vep and the Sleep Walker , the film again travels through the topics of Pop Music, Love and the Undead.
The film was show at her solo show in Barcelona 2007 at Spai Ubu and was part of an installation that
set the context of a sort of Stage made by giant cut- ups , paintings and huge drawings.
The sound track is performed by Dirty Snow and on this case is a cover from The Cure ( All Cats are Grey)
THE NEW THING REVIEW 2008:
BAND SPOTLIGHT}} Dirty Snow
Dirty Snow are an enigma at first glance: a starkly monochromatic male/female duo, making atmospheric post-punk in the vein of Faith and the Cure era - an influence they pay tribute to with a cover of 'All Cats Are Grey' - and under the influence of electronic music and shoegaze. It takes a little investigation to discover their origins in a gallery in Hackney in 1999 as a conceptual 'ghost band' founded by artists Esther Planas and Marc Hulson for the Five Years project. Since then they've played around London and Europe for nights including Decasia and Zoo Music. How The New Thing have missed them so far is largely due to their lack of publicity - this isn't a band so much as an experimental artistic project, with possibly the least commercial approach we've ever seen. That we haven't previously picked up on them is our mistake, since they make some of the best music we've encountered fresh for quite some time - and apparently their live appearances are even better. Discover them now to make up for nine years' worth of lost time.
review at The New Thing 2008
thank you!!
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