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The Films of Irene Moon and the Begonia Society

[a reposting from WFMU beware of the blog]

Irene Moon has been creating music, film and musical lectures since the mid-90s. Her films are heading combinations of completely factual information with neo-Dada homemade New Wave music, insect sound samples, microphotography, animations and so much more. Included here are her Films of the Auk Theater, a touring theater that performs absurd, classical and heavily stylized theater in rock clubs and music venues. All of the short Auk plays are from 2004-2005. Also: The Super 8 series: Early films from Moon with soundtracks created from field recordings of insects and equipment commonly found in a laboratory environment.

Death By Audio

Thanks to the person who recorded and posted this show on April 4, 2012.
Performing a few hits with less slides and more effects including:
Positively Pleasant Planarian, Sneaky Little Sneak and Fly Me to the Blossom.

Evoluion Meeting Video Contest

As part of the first ever Evolution Meeting Video Contest (organized by NESCent) Meditation on Odonata was submitted.


Meditation on Odonata from Irene Moon on Vimeo.



Created with help (and specimens) from the North Carolina State Insect Museum (insectmuseum.org). An informative but strange introduction to the order Odonata. Video created using AfterEffects software, NCSU Insect Museum specimens, and footage from the Sandin Image Processor located at Alfred University. Meditation on Odonata is important for a few reasons personally as we work on digitizing our Odonate collection…discovering all kinds of cool dragonflies that are found in North Carolina as well as georeferencing these specimens. Could this be one way to discover how the landscape has changed from urbanization since dragonflies are typically found and collected around water?

Salamander Auk

Live version of Salamander Auk from the Auk Theater. Matthew Minter and Irene Moon are the Auks. Matt created the masks and the artwork for the overhead projector. Irene did the music. The plot was created by all the auks. Recorded during the 2005 tour with Mudboy and Wizzards.


Salamander Auk from Irene Moon on Vimeo.


For more Auk Theater information and videos.

Exponental Death Videos now Online

Exponential Death was a short play created by Kevin Blechdom, Neill Prewitt and Irene Moon during a two week flurry in February 2010. The play was around an hour long and consisted of video segments, live action and music. Kevin and Irene edited some of the video down over thanksgiving holiday as music videos. Musical credits are on the videos themselves but much of the music was recorded before while Kevin and Irene lived in Tallahassee Florida.


Now That You're Gone by Irene Moon and Kevin Blechdom from kevin blechdom on Vimeo.



Alien on Piano from kevin blechdom on Vimeo.



The Waltz from kevin blechdom on Vimeo.



I Killed Them All from kevin blechdom on Vimeo.



Murder in the Living Room from kevin blechdom on Vimeo.

Maladresses ou la Figure de l’Idiot

An exhibition of Snowflake will take place this month at the Institute of Social Hypocrisy in Paris

with Mathis Collins, Michele di Menna, Petrit Halilaj, Justin Meerkel, Irene Moon, Annette Ruenzler.

Video soundtrack by Darker Florida (Irene Moon and Christopher Cprek)

Some thoughts about the idiot from curator Fanny Gonella:

The word idiot defines a category of people and, consequently, is part of a normative system, which sorts out individuals according to their mental condition. It seems some categories have a hard time finding their place in society, and the idiot, because of his supposedly inappropriate behavior, is kept on the margins of this system.

Although this figure is hardly visible in daily life, it can be encountered easily in literature or films. The context of fiction allows for the complexity of the true idiot’s figure to unfold. He does things out of confusion rather than according to personal interests. This character, being partly dispossessed of himself, offers the possibility to reflect the „landscape“ around him. He functions as a vehicle for other people’s stories. The transparency of his actions, due to his absence of strategy, turns him into a catalyst on the people surrounding him. The idiot brings along a degree zero of intention.

His actions are generated by the position of the others, but he totally ignores their expectations, or what they would normally consider as suitable. Though he acts without following social rules, his behavior does not contain any provocative intention or judging attitude. His genuine thoughts, being expressed without any secondary objectives, offer a clear view on the most complex situations because he does not act according to the potential consequences of what he says or does.

Within our environment, which is overloaded with strategies, the idiot opens unseen perspectives and appears as an existential figure. He develops his own path according to personal beliefs and regardless of decency, which makes his actions incommensurable to everyday logic. His thoughts do not unfold according to prejudices or norms and in this sense, the true idiot sometimes appears as the hidden face of the genius. Reciprocally, knowledge seems to function as a scholarly repetition of norms from the past that have been taken for granted. The idiot’s ignorance suggests an odd form of beauty, without relation to classical harmony but rather to apparently insignificant things and clumsiness.