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 played backwards. It is reminiscent of such unintelligible seventies art performances or a Dadaistic reading of a Kurt Schwitters poem, leaving audiences baffled.
Also in this combined programme
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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. The film is made up of six movements that show the relationship between the drummer and his instrument. They work upon each other, like a clockwork in a puppet-show.
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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 an ant at a picnic, Isaac Mathes’s camera insinuates itself into the stolen rhythms of an afternoon’s passing that fleetingly recalls the passing of so many others.
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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 of the audience. Individual behaviour condenses into collective behaviour. The event is transferred from the stage to the hall; audience members become the actors in an unpredictable drama.
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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 of another cultural form of expression: the opera and its melodramatic employment of voices, as well as the distant, cool, electronic creation of sound.
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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 mostly German electronic recordings is juxtaposed with excerpts from music critic/philosopher Christoph Cox’s essay on Gilles Deleuze, experimental electronica and the limits of rock music’s forms and ideological premises.
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Ten One-Minute Videos
Ten new music videos by the world’s most famous unknown band.
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Beach Boys vs. Ghetto Boys
Linking two separate musical generations, Arcangel creates an unexpectedly cohesive mix.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
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