find me on these platforms

Image Alt

Wanda is not here

Wanda is not here mixtape
Wanda | OnO Records
Berlin | Salford 2016

Wanda is a new literary & musical imprint; a portal that forges constellations between cinematic, literary & sonic worlds.

Wanda’s 100 minute mix tape including 3 panel inlay card with detailed liner notes & manifesto. Limited Edition Cassette x 50.

Instagram, SoundCloud, Wanda portal

 

Manifesto

WANDA IS A FILM DIRECTED BY BARBARA LODEN IN 1971. LODEN PLAYS WANDA.

SHE LEAVES HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN FOR A NOMADIC LIFE ON THE MARGINS. EVER MOVING, SHE BECOMES AN OUTLINE IN INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES AND ROVING MOTORWAYS. SHE IS DRIFTING ON THE FRONTIER ZONE.

THE CAMERA PANS ACROSS A WASTELAND OF DUST AND MORTAR. WE SEE A SPECK OF WHITE DOTTING AROUND IN THE BACKGROUND. AS THE SPECK OF WHITE MOVES IN CLOSER TO THE FOREGROUND, THE LENS RE-FOCUSES ITSELF; THE SPECK TRANSFORMS INTO A WOMAN.

IT IS WANDA.

SHE SKIRTS ONTO THE EDGE OF THE LANDSCAPE, ONTO THE TREMORING BORDERS. WALKING PAST THE ROVING CAMERA, OUT OF FRAME, SHE EXITS, FALLING INTO THE BLIND SPOT OF PURE SPECULATION.

THE FILM IS A CELEBRATION OF CINEMATIC LIMBO. ITS AESTHETICS CONJURE UP A POLITICS OF LIMBO; A SPHERE OF ROVING, RESTLESS, OPEN WANDERING. A CINEMATIC ZONE OF PROTEST AGAINST FIXITY AND CATEGORICAL JUDGEMENT.

FOR TO BE WANDA TAKES COURAGE.

WANDA IS A PERFORMANCE OF A HEIGHTENED NATURE. IN AN EXTREME CLOSE-UP OF WANDA’S FACE, WE ARE EXPOSED TO INVISIBLE FREQUENCIES, GESTURES, AND UNTOLD ENERGIES.

WANDA IS A CINEMA OF SHAPE-SHIFTING WONDER. IT IS NEITHER WOMAN, NOR FILM; IT IS BOTH, A MUTATIONAL BEING.

WANDA IS A CINEMA OF NON-CLOSURE AND POTENTIALITIES. IT INVOKES PSYCHIC AND AESTHETIC IMPERCEPTIBILITIES. THROUGH WANDA, WE MOVE IN BETWEEN . SIDEWAYS IS OUR DIRECTION – ACROSS LATERAL THOUGHT PROCESSES, TEMPORALITIES, AND MEDIUMS. THE HEIGHTENING OF THE INVISIBLE PLANE, THAT SEEPS THROUGH THE CRACKS OF THE CINEMATIC FRAME.

Track list

The White Side (A)

1. Wanda Intro
2. Epiphany Now – 16-01-27-01-00-37-25
4. Odie Ji Ghast / Bad@maths – Aquatic Frolics
5. Shriekback – Hapax Legomena
6. Rachel Margetts & Dice Miller – Double exposure
7. Büchler & Wand – á la Cage
8. Ecka Rose Mordecai – Fog
9. Michael Holland – Sunday Morning
10. Belarisk – Ruined Rig (Contaminated)
11. Yr Lovely Dead Moon – God’s Land
12. S/Z – Feeling And Must
13. Enir Da – Desert (Cowboy’s Chase)

The Black Side (B)

14. Fith – L’ Echappée Belle
15. Michael Holland & Ana Berkenhoff – Pendolino
16. Crude – Best Man
17. The Polyopia of Purple – A radio play with words by
Nissa Nishikawa & sound from Makoto Kawabata
(Acid Mothers Temple)
18. Param – Atman
19. Brigitte Fontaine – L’ Auberge
20. Negra Branca – Importa
21. Sister Body – Cadillac (On The Way To The Hospital)
22. Dice Miller, Andreas Reihse, Rene Schohe – ‘Brixton X Roads’

95 mins

A WANDA / ONO Release (August, 2016)

All Releases