Madame Varga (Lori Varga / Oakland)
Lori Varga is an experimental sound & light projection artist; Bay area native.. She makes mostly Expanded cinema style performances w/ unusual music instruments & film projectors.
Her performances has been shown at Cinematexas Film Festival, (Austin) Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema (SF), Salvage Vanguard Theater (TX), Shapeshifter’s Cinema (Oakland), Filmhuis Cavia Film Fest ,( Amsterdam ), Gray Area (SF) , Outsound New Music Festival (Berkeley) & Bad Video Art festival ,(Cosenza, Italy).
Set to her own 16mm or Super 8 films- she also creates instrumental soundscapes using circuit bent synthesizers, bird calls, magnetic tape & portable / desktop electronic set ups.
Lori also owns & operates one of the largest ‘special interest ‘ found footage” & experimental Film & VHS repositories in the east bay. 1995-Current*
Former collaborative works with artists such as Kit Young , Matt Robidoux, Thomas Dimuzio, John Davis, & Bands :Butthole Surfers, St37, Daniel Johnston, & Acid Mothers Temple
