07 DEC 11: Christian Carbat Carana (live) + "Alphaville" by Jean-Luc Godard

On the event of the end of the year 2011, and the beginning of the notorious year 2012, next Wednesday December 7th Rabbithole will be screening Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 dystopic sci-fi film Alphaville opened with a live performance by artist Christian Carbat Carana .

8 pm:

Christian Carbat Carana... thought for a moment to have been the nephew of Philip strauss kahn has in fact no other relation other than being part French...CC Carana was born in 1972 in a sort of Basket in France..

Visited by a chimp while still in that basket, the chimp was chased away... Years later a very young Carana was introduced to Jazz by the drummer mez mezrow in Paris.. Mez disappeared, leaving his drums behind in Carana's Mom's basement... 

Carana's Mother later sold this rare drum set to an obscure British new wave producer...Twelve years later Carana relocated to NEW York where he grew dreadlocks and wanted to be a rastafarian. He did not want to be a white man. It was around this time that he discovered his roots in Guadeloupe as well as more recently Haiti. Carana also traveled extensively to Jamaica and later met up with Ras Michael In Los Angleles a few months prior to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In 1994 He got yelled at in a now defunct reggae record shop by the late Singer Joseph Hill for his ignorance. Joseph Hill who had been the founder of the legendary group culture,lost his temper at the young Carana for not knowing he had toured throughout Africa for many years. Later That year, Carana recorded his first solo record entitled me, myself and I. The origins of this music might be akin to folk... To this day, CC Carana plays a form of flock music...Flak , Folk, Flock...whatever...

8:30 pm:

Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution takes film noir and brings it to an inter-galactic dystopian future where Eddie Constantine's secret agent character Lemmy Caution has for mission to destroy Alpha 60 the technocratic automated city from which concepts such as love and tenderness have been banished. Shot on location during the 60's (no sets), this film astonishingly turns contemporary Paris into an icily dehumanized city of the future. Anna Karina stars as a "love" and "conscience" deprived Natasha von Braun and the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice is an underlying symbolism throughout the film as Godard pays homage to Jean Cocteau, one of Godard significant influences. 

Wednesday Dec 7th, 2011.

Door is $10 with Open Bar!

Starts at 7:30 pm.

See you there!