IFFR 2013

Tony Cokes

A huge screen presents over 45 videos and animations from the past 15 years, exposing the hypocrisy of the music industry, consumer culture, the art world and USA politics. Cokes’ critical texts appear on brightly coloured backgrounds, as subversive video clips.

Signals: Sound Stages

(Pop, Terror, Critique) Remix

Quay Brothers

The Brothers Quay were challenged twice by classic soloists to create a counterpoint for a live performance. Inspired by Bartók and Janácek and their respective interpreters Alina Ibragimova and Mikhail Rudy, they open up unexpected spaces and dimensions.

2 Film Concerts  - Ibragimova & Rudy

Peter Strickland

A mousy British sound engineer ends up in an Italian studio to provide the electronic music and sound effects on a low-budget sleazy horror movie - the giallo genre made famous by Dario Argento: sex, violence and Satanism. Fantasy soon starts to pervade reality.

Berberian Sound Studio

Matt Stokes

Stokes investigates the social and visual codes of specific subcultures. Here, an anonymous cartoon character demonstrates its moves, a hybrid of styles associated with modern music and dance cultures dating from the early 1900s to the present.

Dance Swine Dance

Jeremy Xido

War-ravaged and potentially the richest country in Africa, Angola is the epicentre of the African hardcore music scene. Two people running an orphanage have a dream. They are going to mount the first-ever national rock concert. <em>Tue 29, 18:15-19:45, Scopitone Café, free entrance, Kleine Zaal Schouwburg</em>

Death Metal Angola

Christof Migone

People lying face down proceed to pound the floor with the microphone one thousand times, each choosing their own rhythm and intensity. Their sounds are individually amplified. An exploration of space, time and labour in both a personal and collective way.

Hit Parade

Nelly Ben Hayoun

Scientists attempt to communicate with non-terrestrials, set to a libretto by Bruce Sterling.

The International Space Orchestra

Bill Morrison

High-resolution scans of nitrate footage and new CGI renderings of space depict a unique view of the heavens. With Maya Beiser on cello.

Just Ancient Loops

Pierre Laffargue

This documentary follows the formation and international tour of a supergroup comprised of Congolese and Western bands. An experimental fusion of rumba, Congolese street rhythm, indie rock and psychedelia, instigated by the eclectic label Crammed Discs. 18:15-20:00, free entrance, Scopitone Café, Kleine Zaal Schouwburg

Kinshasa Superband

Antonino D'Ambrosio

Various musicians discuss how their art was largely a reaction to the conservative politics of Reagan and Thatcher. Public Enemy, MC5, Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Clash, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Billy Bragg, Manu Chao, Gogol Bordello, DJ Spooky and many more. <em>18:15-19:45, free entrance, Scopitone Café, Kleine Zaal Schouwburg</em>

Let Fury Have the Hour

Michael Snow

Set on a deserted mountaintop in wintery North Quebec, this masterpiece of experimental cinema celebrates the cosmic relationships of space and time. A discrete, yet alienating electronic soundtrack accompanies the camera movements, circling in all directions.

La région centrale

Throughout his career, Michael Snow has alternated between his practice as a media-artist and as a musician. For this rare document, he combines both.

Reverberlin

Mike Redman

This documentary unites all the important artists involved in the use of sampling, the musical term for the recycling of already-existing material. A music style that consists of fragments is mapped out here in a coherent and above all playful way. 18:15-20:15, free entrance, Scopitone Café, Kleine Zaal Schouwburg

Sample: Not For Sale

Larry Sider

School of Sound

Jamie Kastner

Humorous investigation into the escapist genre par excellence. Was disco a misunderstood culture of protest and a liberation movement for women, blacks and gays? Were those dance floor enthusiasts actually foot soldiers in a social revolution? Big stars testify. 18:15-19:45, free entrance, Scopitone Café, Kleine Zaal Schouwburg

The Secret Disco Revolution

Laurie Kwasnik

In the slipstream of one of his many recent exhibitions and retrospectives, documentary filmmaker Kwasnik is following the maestro.

Snow in Vienna

Aura Satz

Visual artist Satz often concentrates on sound and acoustics. Her recent video-works all share a media-archeological approach. Old musical automata face the first gramophone cylinders and the Theremin meets a unique film machine for synthetic sound.

Soundfigures

Mika Taanila

In the 1970s, Muzak Corporation developed a pseudo-scientific method called 'Stimulus Progression', using music to increase productivity in a factory, for instance. This Finnish documentary filmmaker and media-archeologist seeks out contemporary examples.

Stimulus Progression (Rotterdam)

Marcelo Machado

An homage to Brazilian innovators from the 1960s, such as Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. A vibrant collage of news footage, video clips, photos and psychedelic graphics, the film also evokes the Tropicália bric-a-brac aesthetic. 18:15-19:45, free entrance, Scopitone Café, Kleine Zaal Schouwburg

Tropicália

Paolo Campana

Set in 11 cities and 7 countries, the director went on a global trip to find out what role vinyl plays in the 21st century. Devotion, ecstasy, infatuation and agony are the feelings that unite the portrayed record collectors, DJs, musicians and artists. 18:15-19:30, free entrance, Scopitone Café, Kleine Zaal Schouwburg

Vinylmania - When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute

Caroline Martel

Documentary uniting an ensemble of fascinating characters (including Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood) in their passioned quest to revive a sophisticated electronic music invention: the Ondes Martenot, an instrument that everyone has heard, but has rarely heard of.

Wavemakers

Alexis Milne

The installation examines the roots of subcultural uprisings, and in particular the origins of Hip Hop. For the opening, Milne will produce a live performance featuring The Cult of Rammellzee, a group inspired by the 1980s rapper/graffiti artist/philsopher.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025