Off the Record
Combined programme
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IFFR 2005
Music can do without images, and still people enjoy illustrated sounds. Luckily, there are also alternatives to the slick pop promos of the recording industry.
In this combined programme
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Ich bin traurig
The video is part of a series of works on ‘digital translations of reality’. The masculinity-charged raging of brachial heavy-metal music runs through the filter… -
Beach Boys vs. Ghetto Boys
Linking two separate musical generations, Arcangel creates an unexpectedly cohesive mix. -
The Stairway at Nighttown
Performance of the famous Led Zeppelin anthem Stairway to Heaven, sung backwards – after months of rehearsal and development by the artist – and consequently… -
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Batterie RK – Schlagzeugen
A composition of a man and his instrument. Rhythmic, mechanical equivalents are generated by means of editing. The musician in the picture is Rüdiger Klose.… -
Play
Play is a montage of archive footage of audiences in which the on-screen action can only be seen reflected in the facial expressions and gestures… -
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1!
1! closes the Pop Manifestos series with a presentation of titles of the 100 CDs Tony Cokes has valued most from 1997-2002. This discography of… -
What Has Passed Will Be Dear
An elliptical idyll enriched by memories on the air and the water, radio static, and cargo holds, to the music of carefully edited compositions. Like…
