The unlucky many that missed last Saturday’s brain-piercing show at the Market Hotel can experience the night’s most colorful remnants through Austin Rhodes’ high-speed, 11-minute silent film titled April 18th-April 19th: Silent Uncut.
The film’s detail-oriented, slice-of-humanity focused editing, makes it feel like you’re watching the visions in someone’s mind on a projection screen as they recall a long night of heavy drinking and live music… memory lapses included. As events unfold, Rhodes follows familiar faces from one venue to another, hopping from an acoustic open mic to a live show by the Marionettes of Satan (complete with white monk robes), followed by a last call brigade at Goodbye Blue Monday.
If the filmmaker’s goal is to reflect reality — our nervous facial expressions when we talk, the useless objects that draw our stares — then Rhodes did a hell of a job and made it all look so beautiful, so “worth the pain” and without a single sound. When the film ended I found myself asking “who lives these lives?” only to realize that our neighbors, our friends, live these lives. We live these lives.





Jimmy Legs April 24th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
wow what was this shot with? it looks like he used some kind of additional light source but it must not have been too harsh or everybody’d be squinting. market hotel never looked so good!
Samteague April 27th, 2009 at 2:14 am
looks good…crisp; and, yeah, what was this shot with?
Diego April 27th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Now that I look at it again, I think it’s a very long stream of pictures … moving pictures …