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"The
point is to have fun, and if you like what you are
doing, you will do it well."
JCBA's MusicBox Concert Film Series Presents
Jane Siberry
in
Beauty Train and
Boy Collect Birds
Directed by Jane Siberry
Approximately 60 minutes total
2003
You most likely do not know Jane Siberry's music, but you
should.
This Canadian artist has been recording since 1980 and has
created an eclectic body of music that defies category. Her
work has done much to inform our own creative work and
philosophy here at JCBA (even down to the Self-Determined
Admission policy that we have instituted for our film
screenings).
We'll begin our evening with Boy Collect Birds, a
collection of five short films, directed by Siberry, based
on her songs "The Bird in the Gravel" (1987), "An Angel
Stepped Down (and Slowly Looked Around)," "Love is
Everything," "Sail Across the Water," and "Temple" (1993).
We'll move next to Beauty Train, filmed over three nights
at Hugh's Room in Toronto in 2002. This is Jane's "it ain't
a concert concert,"
a concert in talk show format. Great music, fun guests,
witty banter, expensive props. A 30-minute
show elegant in
its simplicity.
Jane Siberry, who, since 2006, now goes by the name I ssa,
creates music you'll most likely never hear on commercial
radio. She is perhaps best known for her songs "Everything
Reminds Me of My Dog" (1989) and "Calling All Angels" (1993,
with kd lang) and for songs you may have heard in film and
television soundtracks: "It Won't Rain All the Time" from
The Crow, "Anytime" from The L Word, and "Calling All
Angels" from Pay It Forward. Her songs range from the simple
to the cinematic in scope. She has collaborated with artists
like Peter Gabriel, Nigel Kennedy, Brian Eno, and kd lang.
If you've never experienced her music, there's a lot you're missing.
Four screenings on the big screen at the Jaffe Book Arts
Gallery
Jaffe Center for Book Arts
Third Floor East of the Wimberly Library
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Wednesday November 4 and Thursday
November 5
3 PM and 7 PM both days
Self-Determined Ticket Prices:
Offer what you can, in good spirit.
Donations benefit the JCBA Education Fund. |
For
Clips & Interviews of Jane Siberry Please Click Here
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