Last week, we were in Los Angeles for the premiere of our movie “It Was On Earth That I Knew Joy” directed by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier and produced by Sixpack France.

Here are some pictures of our trip…

Who are you ?

PMKFA from Meguro 2-chome, south-west Tokyo.

Why do you think you have been invited to be a part of that art show ?

Because I bribed the organizers or because I usually try stuff I’ve never tried before.

What is the link between the movie « It was on earth that i knew joy » and your installation ?

It generated a slew of thoughts in my head, about what we as a civilization would leave behind if we vanished today compared to ancient ones? About the fears in our contemporary world and how we’ve created some kind of industry of fear where it moves in seasonal cycles, H1N1, WMD, IED, RPG, KSM and whatever flavor the moment have to offer. I was really impressed by the movie, it was like “La Jetee” but with a wider perspective .

What are your top three favorite movies ?

“The Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner”, “Lessons of Darkness”, “Koyaanisqatsi”.

What did you learn today ?

To not stick too hard to the plan.

We took five minutes to talk with Jonathan Zawada.
The Australian artist is taking part in our very soon-opening exhibition “It Was On Earth That I Knew Joy“.
We tried to know more about his artwork process and feelings around the show…

The exhibition will open this saturday February 20th at 7pm at the SCION gallery in Los Angeles.
Please have a stop if you are by there.

More reports and artists interviews from Los Angeles soon !

Who are you?

I am Jonathan Zawada, a graphic designer, illustrator and artist from Sydney, Australia.

Why do you think you have been invited to be a part of the art show?

Because I’m a very lucky individual! I think I was invited to be part of the art show because some of the visual and conceptual aspects of my work are similar to the idea of the personal artifact that seems to be at the heart of It Was on Earth that I Knew Joy.

What is the link between the movie « It Was On Earth That I Knew Joy » and your poster?

My works are inspired by entropy – both in its thermodynamic form and in something I see as cultural entropy. Everything in the universe is slowly moving towards a point of complete disorder and for me the film seems to be an attempt to look back at previous states of order in order to understand a possible future of increased disorder. My works are also about states and a concept of memory, that all things are constantly changing and their earlier states can be hard to recover.

What are your top three favorite movies?

Adaptation, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ghost In The Shell.

What did you learn today?

It’s only 7.36am but I have learnt that future silicon chips may use light instead of electricity to transmit data.

It took more than thirty years before pop culture finally incubated the wild aesthetics of Kenneth Anger, both a major figure of the American counter-culture and a visionary film director who greatly influenced a major part of modern cinema (ranging from Scorcese to Lynch, including Fassbinder, Derek Jarman, Gus Van Sant, Pedro Almodovar, Guy Maddin…). These Maverick style films, obsessed with a glamour they try to reject simultaneously, are at the same time conjurations and invocations, declarations of independence and spells cast on the audience. This postmodern aesthetics before its time resorts to occultism and black magic, and exacerbates homosexual libido through a pagan frenzy that relates more to an initiation journey than to cinematographic writing. His Magick Lantern Cycle, which includes the essentials of his works directed between 1947 and 1981, is being re-released these days on Blu-ray Disc.

READ MORE HERE.

We wanted to present you the text that illustrates our new spring-summer 2010 collection.

The line has taken its origins through the psychelic words of Mike McClure’’s “Peyote Poem”, poetical story of a drug experience, leading figure of Sixpack new journey.

This preface was written to explain our approach, references and give keys for a better interpretation of the collection.

The whole collection will be available online at the end of the week.

Enjoy.

In the desert, at night, it is cold.
During the day, it’s bright sunny.

Desert is scary. And attractive.
Music from geographical mermaid, many Ulysses went there, to never come back, caught in mirages.
Desert is an ordeal. If you ever come back from it, you are completely transformed.

Universal myth, den of mystiques since ancient Egypt, the way Saint Anthony did it in his cave in the Thebaid.
Hollywood mythology, desert is the frontier, not the Far West for cowboys but the Wild Wild West for gold diggers.
An experience with no guarantee to come back.
You go there soul searching, without necessarily finding answers.

Set off like Jim Morrison before making The Doors, the Oliver Stone’s way, or like young hippies in Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni, this is the solar face.
The lunar face: the Charles Manson Family’s ranch in Death Valley, or the Hell’s Angels dens like in Mad Max, far from the standard world.
Experiences and meditations for some of them, a sanctuary far from the civilized world for others.

Mystique and violence, a haven or a corpse.
Sand immensity free of human trace, the country of lost order and reversed values. Adoptive country for all counter-cultures. Knowledge from the abyss. The hotbed of the occult.
Two guides for us in this immensity: Kenneth Anger and Alejandro Jodorowski.

Two beacons in the dark of night, for a trip to hell. Two enlightened people towards the Light.

At the heart of darkness, stars speak to us. When lost, it is necessary to decipher hidden letters, concealed numbers and figures of dropped science. Satan and Kabbalah, Lucifer and the tarot.

Maelstrom full of confusion, jumble of misunderstood symbols for a novice and warnings that only insiders crack.

A heaven of signs and codes from a road beyond Good and Evil, taken with eagerness by National Forest, PMFKA, La Boca, Gasius, Bus and Sanghon Kim.

The kingdom of a world without any rules, set on other frequencies, like the Super Soul radio frequency accompanying Kowalski in his road movie to death.
Vanishing Point.

Vanity, everything is vanity, you only get it in the desert. Reduced to the essence, nothing superfluous can resist to it. The body and its skeleton, far from the pleasures of life, Sixpack kept looking and finally found itself. The pith and marrow.

Print is dead.
A shriek like a Neil Young’s riff in the night.

Bareness.
And Cody Hudson at the height of it.

We are very pleased to share with you the official trailer of  our first movie “It Was On Earth That I Knew Joy” directed by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier.

The movie will be presented on February 20th 2010 at SCION Gallery (Los Angeles) in an exhibition curated by Sixpack France.

Sixpack France is very pleased to announce the projection of its first short movie “It was on earth that i knew joy” directed by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, on February 20th 2010 at Scion Gallery (Los Angeles), on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name.

« It was on earth that i knew joy » is similar to theses stories where everything seems to happen naturally.

A statement of the obvious for so long contained within us and finally granted…

Sixpack France has always felt close to the Seventh Art.

Our label has grown, influenced and immerged by the aesthetic of experimental or avant-garde film makers such as Alejandro Jodorowski, Michelangelo Antonioni, Kenneth Anger…and obviously Chris Marker.

But Cinema was still a blank media, a new world for us to explore …

The impulsion was to transgress our own limits.
As usual, never press the STOP button.
Challenging ourselves and add a new art sphere.

The film appeared as the natural progression of our « Past, Present, Future » collection, a travelling line through images, already dedicated to Chris Marker’s SCI-FI LO-FI movie “La Jetée”.

An obvious epic with Jean Baptiste de Laubier, DJ and producer (Para One), graduated from la FEMIS, who carried his first videos to Chris Marker’s house at 19 year-old.

The movie will be presented as a private projection at the famous SCION gallery in Los Angeles on February 20th 2010.

On this special occasion, Sixpack France will invite several artists all coming from the international modern and contemporary art scene to create an authentic interpretation around the movie.

Akroe, Honet, Ill-Studio, PMKFA, Jonathan Zawada, Brigitte Sire, Neil Krug, Steven Harrington, Justin Krietemeyer, Daniel Sparkes, Cody Hudson, Russel Maurice, Mark Owens, Seb Jarnot, Sanghon Kim, Museum Studio, Piotr Lakomy, Lowrider, Partners & Others, Faker, D.I.Y, La Boca, Neil Doshi, Benbo George, House of Kids

Fifteen posters and ten totally new installations will be presented.

“IT WAS ON EARTH THAT I KNEW JOY”
Exhibition from February 20th to March 13th, 2010
Opening reception February 20th, 2010 at 7pm

Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave (at National)
Culver City, CA. 90232