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IFFR 2023: sound//vision

11 January 2023

IFFR 2023: sound//vision

Stories

IFFR 2023: sound//vision

11 January 2023

Art Directions presents seven audio-visual performances at WORM between 26 and 29 of January. Classically trained musician, composer and producer Midori Hirano creates sounds with pulsating, transforming and mesmerising atmospheres and textures, performing Distant Symphony AV with live visuals by filmmaker Markus Wambsganss.

In Orphax: Untitled Music for Fernando, Orphax, the musical project by Amsterdam-based Sietse van Erve, will perform the world premiere of a musical piece set to visuals by Portuguese artist Fernando José Pereira. Another Netherlands-based filmmaker Dick Verdult, whose Als uw gat maar lacht (If Yes, Okay) premieres in the festival’s Harbour section, uses his musical moniker Dick el Demasiado to perform Celulitis Popular, a combination of found-footage excerpts from popular culture with a danceable soundtrack of experimental and eccentric cumbia lunática

Each night there will be an afterparty with sets from DJ Turkana, Chinnamasta, Charmaine and OG Karin. 

Titles

  • Ayankoko Presents: AV Reactive Performance, Ayankoko, 2022, France
  • Celulitis Popular, Dick Verdult, Netherlands, 2022, Argentina
  • Distant Symphony AV, Midori Hirano, Markus Wambsganss, 2022, Germany
  • Fractures chimiques , Charles-André Coderre, Mathieu Arsenault, 2022, Canada
  • Orphax: Untitled Music for Fernando, Orphax, Netherlands, 2022
  • Ritual for a Dying Planet, Fraction, 2022, France
  • Shadows of Machines, Pierre Bastien, 2022, Netherlands

Art Directions: sound//vision

At IFFR, we celebrate the careers of radical filmmakers and visual artists. For our 52nd edition, we have carefully curated our Focus programmes of inspiring creatives. Read more about our Focus Programmes for 2023 or check out the programme to find these films. 

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