exploding cinema - Sound Check
Overview of films
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Audible Picture Show
A wide range of inventive and creative people, including important topical film makers and sound artists, react to the challenge of making a short pur
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Me+
A single white cross on a blank black surface. The slow movements of this cross seem to delineate some figure. But it is the off-screen voice that has the most suggestive effect on the viewer’s imagination. A self-portrait in motion graphics with sound design by Anton Aeki. The text is written and whispered by Anouk […]
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Transfixed
Bridging the gap between past and present, a series of thought pictures transcribe moments of cautionary pleasure submerged in undulating illusions of liquefied light and shadow.
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Warning: Petroleum Pipeline
A photo and video collage in black and white computer animation. A desolate desert landscape is slowly transforming into a futuristic industrialized world. Indefinable machines are branching off into more complex mechanisms, which are producing an industrial soundtrack while moving rhythmically.
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Kilvo
A remote, barren, almost unfriendly landscape: Kilvo in Lapland was the inspiration for Radian’s music, and even the accompanying visuals by Michaela Grill play with the bare countryside’s resistance to its depiction. A fourfold split screen shows views of this place in a kaleidoscope of animated digital postcards.
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Text of Light: Preview
Because the films of Stan Brakhage were originally intended to be watched in silence, the IFFR also offers an opportunity to experience the film selec
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Kernwasser Wunderland
Kernwasser Wunderland opens up a biotope subject to specific laws and its own ecology, filled according to the intuitive logic of the unconscious and the imaginary. The brooding emptiness inspires reflection on nature and technology, in a fusion of sensual sound and image of both digital and natural worlds.
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La jeune fille et la mort
This video is a letter to a missing person. The spectator has the choice of either following the narration and/or observing the abstract pattern of lines. The superimposition of the same image with a delay can also evoke the ‘phase music’ of Steve Reich. What matters is precisely the choreography between these two interpretations.
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Palm
In a Christian context, palms are a symbol of victory, a foreshadowing of rebirth. Sandra Gibson’s use of palm fronds as a purely visual subject, as textures, is linked to both interpretations. This also marks her return from animated films to direct observational work.
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REPLAY
‘Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.’ (Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939) Memories can be so fragile, so elusive and so unreliable. Using cameras and other recording devices, we try in vain to capture life as it slips by, but somehow it’s never the same. Perhaps the act of recording blurs the […]
