Making a Diagonal with Music
Hacer una diagonal con la musica
A short film about the Argentine electro-acoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, an original pioneer of early musique concrète alongside Pierre Schaeffer during the 1950s and 1960s. Here she discusses her ‘sound hunting’ recording techniques, and other thoughts on sound montage and spatialisation. Featuring creaking doors, barking dogs and rainbow hands.
Also in this combined programme
-
A Proposal to project in Scope
Widescreen film format CinemaScope not as a window on the world, but a sculpture in a subtle interplay of light and shadow, sun and trees. -
The Machine
Goethe’s poem Wanderer’s Nightsong is systematically analysed. Poetry is, however, more powerful than any analysis or restructuring. -
THORAX
Informed by Marcel Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema,THORAX is an ingenious game with dazzling light, stroboscopic flickering and matching sound. -
TESTFILM #1
Telcosystems attempt to hack into digital film projection to open it to chaos and creativity. Will they find the cracks in the system? -
Further Radical
Slices of black radish on unexposed film lead to effective explosions of light right through the dark, photochemical emulsion.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
