What (is) Cinema? – Watch that Sound
Combined programme
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IFFR 2002
In this compilation everything revolves around the interaction between image and music, and yet these short films – with one exception perhaps – cannot be called music videos. The artists are however following in the footsteps of the 1920s tradition of absolute film. Others are investigating the origins of sound in a documentary and analytical way. The visual grammar of the music video is being deconstructed in a conceptual or sociological way, whereas other artists still try to illustrate in the simplest way how soundwaves can be transformed into corporeal movement.
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Soundings
Alternating between abstraction and very concrete, this film offers an adventure as much for the ear as for the eye. -
The World is too Big for Me
A video compiled from a series of 242 abstract computer drawings in a square format. -
Héros
The film is the result of an attempt to interest children from an underprivileged area of Brussels in the medium of video. -
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Semi-automatic Cohen
A split-screen observation of two couch potatoes watching TV to the tones of a Leonard Cohen song (Famous Blue Raincoat). -
5%
Tony Cokes analyses and comments on the culture of pop music with as much lucidity as criticism. -
Electronic Organ Club
One episode from a series of short anthropological studies, about sounds from everyday life recorded in their context. -
Cascadence
A digital evocation of a water surface, disturbed by a pebble and reacting energetically. -
Contemporaries
An airport provides the point of departure for a reflection on movement, transport, trance. -
>Fader
The generic city, grey blocks of concrete are transformed into colourful, radiant compositions.
