TECHNO MYSTIC uses YouTube as a spirit medium, bringing together seven artist-made films and videos that explore the incongruous co-existence of mysterious phenomena and modern technologies.

 

A music video for Panda Bear that pays tribute to surfers taken by the sea.

 

Sam Fleischner is a graduate of Wesleyan University with an honors degree in film. After graduating, Sam moved to NYC, where he worked as a projectionist at Anthology Film Archives, receiving a second film education in experimental cinema. In 2008, Sam directed his first feature, 'Wah Do Dem,' which premiered at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival and received the Jury Prize for Best Film. After a successful theatrical release, 'Wah Do Dem' was included on several top ten end-of-year lists, with Amy Taubin of ArtForum calling it "one of the best narrative film debuts of the twenty-first century." 'Below The Brain,' Sam's experimental documentary about Brooklyn's West Indian Day Parade, premiered at BAM in September 2011. The Wall Street Journal called it "a 58-minute cyclone of color and sound...with an impressionistic intensity and an immersive accumulation of detail nearly as overwhelming as the event itself." Sam has made several award winning short films, music videos for popular bands like MGMT, Panda Bear, and Santigold as well as art+video installations for venues throughout the US. He lives and works in Rockaway Beach, New York, where he is currently filming his next feature film, 'Stand Clear of the Closing Doors.'

 

A tribute to surfers taken by the sea.

Music: 'Surfer's Hymn' by Panda Bear

Directed by Sam Fleischner, 2011

Produced by M ss ng P eces

 

Sam Fleischner lives and works in Rockaway Beach, New York, where he is currently filming his next feature film, 'Stand Clear of the Closing Doors.'

 

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