18/01/2012 Super Everything @ Unbox Festival, New Delhi, India

We are kicking off our touring live av shows in 2012 with a performance of our new live cinema project Super Everything* at the Unbox Festival in New Delhi, India. Completed in September last year through a commission from the British Council, this project explores the theme’s of identity, ritual and place across a Malaysian landscape.

The performance is on the 2nd of February at the British Council, British High Commission, more info can be found here. We are also giving a talk as part of the festival on the 4th and then going on to present our other live av show LDN-REDUX at venues in Mumbia and Bangalore on the 11th & 12th.. more info on these additional shows to follow..

07/12/2011 LDN-REDUX @ The Best of UK Festival & Jakarta Biennale

The Light Surgeons are in Indonesia this month giving a presentation at SSR School of Creative Media and performing their live cinema performance LDN-REDUX at the British Council’s Best Of UK Festival as well as the Jakarta Biennale.

Tickets to all these events are free so if your in town please follow the links above for more info.

07/12/2011 Schlimazeltov! film wins The Coexist Award @ The Insight Film Festival

We are very proud to announce that our short film Schlimazetov!, directed by Light Surgeon Christopher Thomas Allen, has won the Coexist Film Award at The third Insight Film Festival in Manchester last week. The Coexist Award is offered to any film entered into the Festival which best meets the brief of ‘uniting belief’ and is generously supported by The Coexist Foundation, which is an interfaith organisation working to promote, encourage and support engagement between Muslims, Jews and Christians.

The film, which explores the concept of luck, or “Mazel” through a collection of voices from London’s Jewish community, was up against stiff international competition in this festival of film’s about faith, winning the award from a prestigious line of judges including Gary Kurtz the producer of Star Wars and Amanda Rice, head of diversity at the BBC. Mazel indeed! You can watch it there.

11/11/2011 VISUAL PRODUCTION @ WEMBLEY ARENA

We’ve just completed a new piece of video production for the exterior of Wembley Arena utilising their huge LED screen. Working with creative duo Greenaway & Greenaway, we transformed this impressive facade into a stunning piece of visual music based on a track by classic British rock group The Electric Light Orchestra.

This project was commissioned by Heart Productions for Barclay Card‘s Unwind Experience. Full documentation coming soon..

11/11/2011 SUPER EVERYTHING LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCE @ KL DESIGN WEEK

The Light Surgeons where very proud to present their latest live cinema performance Super Everything in the Black Box theatre at MAP KL for the KL Design Week in September. This ambitions audio visual project was almost a year in the making and is a new performing arts commission by the British Council Malaysia with some generous support in the way of equipment from Canon Malayisa.

The resulting live cinema performance transported its audience on four separate nights across the Malaysian landscape to explore the relationship between identity, ritual and place.  A collection of pic’s from these performances can be found on our Flickr steam here.

Please visit the Super Everything website for more info, back ground and links to the other collaborating artists.

Full documentation and international touring dates coming soon!

09/07/2011 NEW INSTALLATION @ THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUMS OPENS!

Our new audio visual installation for the National Maritime Museum‘s Voyagers Gallery opens this week as part of the launch of the new Sammy Ofer Wing. More pictures and video documentation will be posted very soon but until the opening we’ve promised not to reveal too much.. ;-(  More info on the opening can be found here>

09/07/2011 TRUE FICTIONS & LDN-REDUX PERFORMANCE @ ON_OFF FESTIVAL BRAZIL

The Light Surgeons will be performing two live audio visual shows at the prestigious Itaú Cultural‘s ON_OFF Festival in Sao Paulo Brazil. The gigs take place on the 23th, 24th & 25th of July, Friday and Saturday night sees the premiere of a new performance project known as LDN-REDUX, a remix of their recent LDN24 installation project at the Museum of London. Sunday they present their feature length live cinema epic TRUE FICTIONS with Portuguese subtitles and for the very first time in South America. Creative Director Christopher Thomas Allen will be also giving a talk on the company’s past projects at  Itaú Cultural on the 26th. More info of the festival can be found here.

16/06/2011 How Hip Hop Changed the World

We are very busy with a new broadcast graphics project for Jamie Oliver‘s production company Fresh One which will air on Channel 4 later this summer. We’re developing a 30 second title sequence and on screen graphics for a 2 hour list show which explores how Hip Hop has changed the world.  More soon but here’s a little taster of some work in progress:

Overall creative direction has been from chief surgeon general Christopher Thomas Allen. Its been lots of fun to do and we’ve pulled in several of our favorite collaborators: Mitchy Bwoy for his illustrative graphic prowess, the very talented Tom Wall from BlinkinLab for his mighty animation skills along with Jonny Cuba from Soundsci for meaty beats and sound design.

28/03/2011 The Surgery Has Moved

After a few exhausting weeks of moving we are finally in our new space: Unit 308 Mare Street Studios, 203 – 213 Mare Street, London E8 3QE
Our new phone number is: 0208 986 7260
This picture was taken as part of the last load out of Tudor Road, thanks to everyone who helped in particular Bob, Maggie and Kev.

22/02/2011 Big studio clear out sale starts @ ebay

We just started want might turn out to be a very a long process of selling off some of our much loved but “not used enough” to keep equipment on ebay.. first batch is up now for the next week but we will be adding lots more over the next month as we migrate to our new studio space in Mare Street in Hackey.. So if your looking for a bargain – check here first!