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It should be no wonder that Others' Voices is a theme that opened the gate wide for performances of all kinds. An incredible variety of unique voices were called in from all over Uganda and Kenya while we also saw performance participation from other nearby countries.
Music Accompaniments with silent film
As is our tradition from Amakula's inception some of Uganda's finest musicians had been paired with several great classic silent films which were thus Africanized and perhaps will never be the same again. We heard  Baxmba Waves play life music with the great classic from the 1920’s Metropolis, Percussion Discussion Afrika provided the score for a Russian classic Earth (1929), Black Roots Unlimited played life with Body and Soul (1926) by the first African American feature filmmaker Henri Micheaux and Kinobe narrated a film through song from Ingeborg Holm (1913). We also surprised you with a host of unique singing voices from various regions ( Uganda, Rwenzoris, Kenya) and performances who raised their voice through other means.
VJ Slam
Another 'Amakula classic' was the second annual VJ Slam where local VJs competed with one another to find out who the audience felt was the preferred translator.
Kingston Sound Garden: An Ambient Listening Cinema
Located at the Plaza Theater ( Map), the Kingston Sound Garden provided a very different sort of movie going (or, in this case, not going) experience. Everyday during the festival one could experience film sound mixed live in the rear lounge at Kingston. Dialogue, sound, music, ambience was all present in the space along with the outside world just beyond the gate. This mix of real ambience with film ambience was part of the concept. You could sit and become involved in the film as it happened in your minds eye and try to trace when one sequence became another or, more tricky, when one story metamorphosed into another one.
Club Rouge Cinema: Jousting Dialogue
An interactive cinema that pitted audio/video mixers against one another in order to draw up other voices in the manner of verbal jousting but strictly using audio visual material: music, quotes visual/audio quotes from films. Each jouster arrayed his own arsenal and when they battled the audience was treated to an explosive and eclectic barrage of sound and vision.
Amakula Found Cinema Series: Flying Cinema by Jenny Marketou
The Found Cinema Series is intended to expand concepts of the moving images while inducing specific experiences in the viewer that encompasses sound, vision and tactility all at once beyond the frame of the film screen. While in Amakula's second edition this took the shape of a driving Bus Camera Obscura, in the third year we offered a Flying Cinema!
To view the daily Performances schedule, please use the menu on the left.
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