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In July 2005 the experimental film Sightings of Domestic Wildlife: ∏APA∑ITA by Mikhail Karikis was screened at the international Synch Festival of Electronic Music and Digital Arts held in Lavrio, near Athens in Greece.
Synch
Festival was described by its organizers as an avant-garde festival
that stimulates the ears, eyes and thought of those who are open to new
experiences and evolutions in the field of contemporary music and film.
Mikhail Karikis’s film Sightings of Domestic Wildlife: ∏APA∑ITA is
an audiovisual composition for 8mm film and radio interference. Its starting
point is a play on the double meaning of the word '∏APA∑ITA'/'Parasite'
which, in French and Greek, means both 'radio interference' and 'parasites'.
The work consists of two superimposed structures; a sonic and a filmic. The
first is an audio journey by way of a seemingly random radio tuning. The second
is a visual journey into the world of parasites. Sound and image combine into
an abstract whole with scenes of constant, often violent transformations.
Other artists at Synch
Festival were Plaid and Jamie
Lidell of the celebrated Warp
Records, the experimenters Pan
Sonic, the British duo Swayzak, Alex
Smoke and K.Bhta.
