0rphan Drift
Directing
Biography
An artistic collective founded in London in 1994- most well-known for their connection with the ccru (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit). Films produced by them are not credited to the individual people who directed them because that information isn’t available.
Known For
The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace. By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex. Neo-China arrives from the future. Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo. Retro-disease. Nanospasm. Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis comes from the future.
Meltdown
2 7 Xes. The sexy mesmerising trickster avatar in the Syzygy collaboration with CCRU at Beaconsfield Arts, London. This excerpt has a sound track by Ocosi.
Xes
3 6 Splice. Green and black. The speeding psychotic hive mind swarming in the Syzygy collaboration with CCRU at Beaconsfield Arts, London.
Splice
Murmur 1-8 is a SYZYGY avatar. It is a spirit of immersion and depths, signaling or ushering in a collapse between far outside and deep within. Our avatars were elemental.
Murmur 1-8
Live video mixing to audio set by Ocosi. Vocals Ranu Od. Commissioned for Raindance Film Festival's Mixup Series. orphandrift.com orphandriftarchive.com (online mid 2013)
Strange Wars
Video and vocals by 0rphan Drift, audio track 'Time Artificial' by Ocosi. Raindance Film Festival 1999.
9006
5 4 Katak. The pulse of heat, pressure and melt down in the Syzygy collaboration with CCRU at Beaconsfield Arts, London.
Katak
Dark shadow and glimmer. The underworld entity in the Syzygy collaboration with CCRU at Beaconsfield Arts, London. This excerpt has no sound track.
IIS
Light. Alive. Entity.
Blindlight
Made on two domestic vcrs, sampling the Predator movies. This video was the first widely screened Orphan Drift video.
Predator Vision
"An evolutionary fever dream. Futurist, post apocalyptic . . . . Animated collage emerging from fluid becomings. Evolution - evolution as the uncontainability of change which is located in the destabilization of relations between the concrete and the imagined. Science fiction is produced out of cultural necessity- a liminal presence that inhabits prediction and flux, resisting definition and containment. Science fiction and technology are tools, as magic is, for transformation." - Mer Maggie Roberts