Sabbia
Kate McCabe
Experimental Video 79:00 2006 World Premiere
"Sabbia is a desert trip inspired by the music of Brant Bjork (former
member of Kyuss and Fu Manchu) and visualized by Kate McCabe. Evoking the
immeasurable desert landscape and old ghosts of a dusty past, the film
beautifully weaves together a tapestry of perfect moments and a raw
rock-n-roll way of life. As a form of psychedelic documentary, the film
explores the musical wilderness of a weird and sexy Southern California
wasteland. Sabbia presents the landscape's vast sense of space and time
and like a mirage, reveals the magic of desert music, art, and soul.
The vastness of the deserts, their sweep and scope and giant emptiness
waiting to be filled with raw sound, has always been a prominent theme
in Bjork's music, and it finds suitable expression in McCabe's airy,
untethered visualizations of those parts of California where 'wasted' describes
the landscape instead of the people. Conjuring in bits and pieces
everything from Van Sant¹s Gerry to Wilfred Thesiger¹s Arabian Sands, Bjork &
McCabe¹s Sabbia crowds the empty desert with sights and sounds that seem not so
much natural as inevitable." Los Angeles Film Forum
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