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.
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Ich bin traurig
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Beach Boys vs. Ghetto Boys
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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…
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL