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The Flushing Remonstrance

The FLUSHINg remonstrance

 

The Flushing Remonstrance are the duo of Catherine Cramer (percussion, electronics) and Robert Kennedy (keyboards, electronics, voice). We compose and perform our own scores to films and screen the films with our live accompaniment.

We have been playing as a duo since 2015, and each of us has decades of experience performing experimental, improvised, jazz, electronic, and rock music. We invite you to listen and watch with open ears, open eyes, and open mind to what we do, and we hope that you enjoy it.

Catherine Cramer - percussion, electronics

Catherine Cramer has been playing percussion since her days as a dance accompanist at Sarah Lawrence College in the 1970s. After studying at Berklee College of Music, she went on to play in jazz, experimental, blues, and rock bands for over 20 years, collaborating with musicians such as Dick Johnson, Lou Columbo, Gray Sargent, and Eddie Higgins.

Robert Kennedy – keyboards, electronics, voice

Robert Kennedy has been playing keyboards in experimental, rock, and improvisation groups since the mid-1980s, as well as composing film and theater music and working in multimedia performances and sound installations.  He has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Ellen Fullman and Linda Montano, Jimmy Carl Black/The Grandmothers, Duo Zikr, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Pauline Oliveros, Psychic TV, Terry Riley, and Joseph Zitt.

The Flushing Remonstrance were recipients of a 2021 Queens Council on the Arts grant for musical excellence.

 
 

Upcoming shows

                                                                                                  (see FULL CALENDAR for show details)

12/23/24 ROBERT KENNEDY: WEIRD WINTER WONDERLAND [Winter and holiday experimental films], The LetLove Inn, Astoria, Queens

1/8/25 THE BODY OBSESSIVE: THE UNKNOWN AND UN CHIEN ANDALOU, Nitehawk Cinema, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

 

Video

 
 

Instagram

View fullsize Hello all - we are pleased to partner with our good friend and amazing filmmaker and musician #dylanmarsgreenberg to include The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, accompanied by our original score, in the package of her films and videos that you can download
View fullsize We hope you'll join us tonight for our Facebook watch party/premiere of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, with our original score recorded live at #TheLetLoveInn in Astoria, Queens.  This is an amazing, thoroughly eerie, and groundbreaking film,
View fullsize The Flushing Remonstrance wish you a happy solstice. Good health to you, keep safe, keep art alive, and fight for justice. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold a
View fullsize Friends - we are disappointed to report that our July 1 show at #CobbleHillCinemas, performing our live accompaniment to The Phantom of the Opera, will be postponed until a later date TBD.  Unfortunately, New York City is not ready yet to reopen
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View fullsize We are on the sidelines right now as performing artists, but not as human beings. Please, do what you can and what you must. Go out and protest, donate, use your privilege (if you have it) to effect change, hold the police accountable. Work to change
View fullsize The Flushing Remonstrance send you Beltane wishes of health, potency, and joy in the pulse of life. We hope that all of you are safe and well. We deeply miss being able to work on our music and to be able to join you for shows while the pl
View fullsize If you're a Facebook user, we hope you'll join us tonight for our watch party of Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Vampyr," with an all-new score by us recorded live this past December.  It's screening at 9:00 pm EDT (New York City time) on our p
View fullsize Hello all - we hope that you're keeping healthy and well. As we all socially distance from each other, we invite you to join us in the safety of cyberspace for a watch party this Saturday, April 18, at 9 pm on our Facebook page (the only platform tha
View fullsize Friends - we had been holding out hope that everyone's lives would be back to a safe and healthy place by April 29 for our show at #CobbleHillCinemas of The Phantom of the Opera with our live accompaniment. Sadly, that does not yet look to be the cas

 

PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED FILMS (CAN BE REVIVED FOR FUTURE PERFORMANCES):

 

FULL-LENGTH FILMS

Aelita: Queen of Mars - Yakov Protazanov

The Blood of a Poet [Le Sang d'un Poète] – Jean Cocteau

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [Das Cabinet der Dr. Caligari] – Robert Wiene

Cowards Bend The Knee – Guy Maddin

Dracula [Spanish version] - George Melford

Faust – F.W. Murnau

Man With A Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov

Metropolis - Fritz Lang

Nosferatu – F.W. Murnau

A Page of Madness [Kurutta Ichipeij] – Teinosuke Kinugasa

The Phantom of the Opera - Rupert Julian [Lon Chaney]

Salome - Charles Bryant

Sherlock Jr. - Buster Keaton

The Unknown - Tod Browning

Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer

SHORT FILMS (Selected)

1734 - Joel Schlemowitz

Adebar – Peter Kubelka

Allegretto – Oskar Fischinger

Angelbubble - Joel Schlemowitz

Apollo - Tomonari Nishikawa

L'Araigenelephant - Piotr Kamler

At Land – Maya Deren

The Balloonatic - Buster Keaton/Edward F. Cline

Black Ice - Stan Brakhage

Black Widow - Thomas Blanchard

Blue Mountains Mystery Seance -Guy Maddin

Boneyard Angel - Hannah Subotnick

Boogie-Doodle - Norman McLaren

Box - Takashi Ito

Bridges-Go-Round - Shirley Clarke

By Night With Torch and Spear – Joseph Cornell

Channeled Energies -  Joel Schlemowitz

Un Chien Andalou [An Andalusian Dog] -  Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí

Chinese Series - Stan Brakhage

Chronozon (Dweller on the Threshold) - Raymond Salvatore Harmon

A Colour Box – Len Lye

Coney Island at Night, 1905 - Edwin S. Porter

Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse - Stan Brakhage

Destino - Salvador Dali and Walt Disney

Dog Star Man [Part 4] - Stan Brakhage

Early Abstractions - Harry Smith

Eaux d'Artifice - Kenneth Anger

Energie! - Thorsten Fleisch

Enigma - Toshio Matsumoto

Ensemble for Somnambulists - Maya Deren

Entr’acte - René Clair

Eye Myth - Stan Brakhage

Eyewash – Robert Breer

Film - Alan Schneider [Samuel Beckett/Buster Keaton]

Fireworks - Kenneth Anger

From: First Hymn to the Night - Novalis - Stan Brakhage

The Garden of Earthly Delights - Stan Brakhage

Hand - Deanna Morse

Handzor Troix - Tristian Goik

The Heart of the World - Guy Maddin

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome - Kenneth Anger

Invocation of My Demon Brother - Kenneth Anger

Le Labyrinthe - Piotr Kamler

La Mobilier Fidèle [The Automatic Moving Company] – Romeo Bossetti/Émile Cohl

The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra - Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapić

Lot in Sodom - James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber

Lucifer Rising - Kenneth Anger

Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren

Mona Lisa - Toshio Matsumoto

Mothlight – Stan Brakhage

Možnosti Dialogu [Dimensions of Dialogue]  - Jan Svankmajer

Nagisa - Yuki Tsuchiya

Night Music - Stan Brakhage

Odin’s Shield Maiden - Guy Maddin

Once A Chicken, Always A Chicken - Guy Maddin

Persian Series 1-3 - Stan Brakhage

Peyote Queen - Storm De Hirsch

Procession - Bulle Plexiglass

Psych-Burn - J.X. Williams

Rage Net - Stan Brakhage

Rainbow Dance - Len Lye

Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies - The Brothers Quay

Le Retour à la Raison [The Return to Reason] – Man Ray

Ritual in Transfigured Time - Maya Deren

Sappho and Jerry - Bruce Posner

Schwechater - Peter Kubelka

Send Me To The ‘Lectric Chair - Guy Maddin

Sisyphus - Marcell Jankovics

Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) - David Lynch

Soil - Meejin Hong

Starcycle - Deanna Morse

Stellar - Stan Brakhage

Tal Farlow - Len Lye

Three Fragments of a Lost Tale – John Frame

Thunder - Takashi Ito

Trade Tattoo - Len Lye

Trumpet Island Host Seance - Guy Maddin

Umwelt - Yoshiyuki Katayama

The Very Eye of Night - Maya Deren

Le Voyage dans la Lune [A Trip to the Moon] - Georges Méliès

Water for Maya - Stan Brakhage

Witch’s Cradle - Maya Deren

Workbooks: Chimney/Rooster/Zookeeper - Guy Maddin

FILMS CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT FOR PERFORMANCE:

 

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary - Guy MaddinDog Star Man - Stan Brakhage

Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages – Benjamin Christensen

The Phantom Carriage [Körkarlen] - Victor Sjöström

THE FILMS OF CURTIS HARRINGTON - Curtis Harrington short films

THE FILMS OF CLIVE BARKER - early Clive Barker short films

THE FILMS OF HARRY SMITH - Harry Smith short films

THEMED PROGRAMS:     

 

We have a number of themed programs planned for future performance; we can also work with you to assemble programs/content of your choosing.  Themed programs (previously performed and in development) include:

·      Experimental Short Films (various eras and directors)

       We assemble a custom short films program for each show.  This program can be themed based upon appeal for a particular audience or screening                     location, program duration, subject matter, or to complement other aspects of the event or venue.

·      Strange Animation – program of experimental/unusual animated shorts.  Custom program for each show.

·      New York City – program of experimental and historical short films featuring NYC as a subject/location and/or NYC-based filmmakers

·      Director Program – program of films by a single director.  We can assemble  programs of specific directors' work depending upon content and interest.

Examples include: Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Derek Jarman, Clive Barker, Harry Smith, Guy Maddin, and Curtis Harrington.

 

To contact The Flushing Remonstrance:  info@flushingremonstrance.com

BOOKING:  The Flushing Remonstrance will work with you and your venue to present a program that best suits your audience, space, venue, and programming.  We can accommodate your suggestions for content for a specific performance, including selections from our repertoire of over 100 full-length and short films or with new material.

We can use your existing A/V equipment or backline or can provide our own sound system, projector, and screen as needed.

 We also welcome opportunities to score and record soundtracks for film and video; please contact us and we’d be happy to discuss your project.

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