BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE

A portrait film of audience physiognomies and mental states at a concert by the Providence, Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt as audience members thrash in and out of view lit solely by a single spotlight. After a song by Lightning Bolt (\"Captain Caveman\"), the music switches to a drone soundtrack by Joe Grimm and the audience moves in slow motion. The trance state in which the filmed audience exists spills out into the audience as viewer and viewed become a communally hermetic apostolate. Russell connects this very contemporary caste into a lineage that extends back to Jean Rouch and Dante and beyond. It's the viewers call whether it's Inferno, Purgatorio, or Paradiso. (Chris Stults)

This film is part of the short film program Trypps #1 – #6.