Rauschen und Brausen I
In 2006/07 sound composition for the video by Daniel Burkhardt.
PROJECTED VIDEO LOOP | COLOUR | STEREO | 4’ 52’’
„.. and anything anyone knows, hasn’t just heard [people] roaring and blustering about, can be said in three words.“ (F. Kürnberger)
„Rauschen und Brausen I“ is based on a 16-minute video of the nondescript facade of a high-rise building. Crossing in front of the cropped view of the building, in direct proximity to the camera, are countless cars. As the camera zooms back, the motif is multiplied ten thousands of times over, becoming a constantly moving ornament that awakens ever new associations, its „growing“ smallness of detail finally exceeding the viewer’s capacity of perception. Now visible in the background, rising up out of nothing, are storeys upon storeys of high-rise buildings, with cars racing past them without touching the road. They rush through the air: the buildings seem to rise out of nothing: the entire scene hovers in space, The backward zoom widens the scene, traverses the space between near and far, glides from the concrete into the abstract, from tangible into the uncertain. The music meanders around the image, picks up movements of the visual, goes along with them for a while and then strays away from them, following ist own rhythm. Beginning with pulsating bass waves, it wends ist way upwards in a continous vortex until it finallycfades away at barely perceptible frequencies.
Premiere (in competition) at int. Short-Film Festival Oberhausen 07,
shown (selec.) at Art Cologne 07,
EMAF 07,
Kurzfilmfestival “Blicke” Bochum 07 (1. Price),
Rotterdam Film Festival 08,
Digital Sparks Award 08 (1. Price),
Marler Videokunstpreis 08,
Aubagne Filmfest 2009 (1. Price).
Screenings (ua.):
2009
mex _ Künstlerhaus Dortmund
MusikBildMagie _ Kino arsenal, Berlin
10th International Film Festvial Aubagne _ Frankreich
reel to real _ Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt
Sonderprogramm Bauhausjahr 2009 _ Bauhaus Film-Institut, Weimar
Rex _ Klarabiografen, Stockholm
Kunstgenuss _ Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid
23th Image Forum Festival _ Tokio, Japan
Dreaming with Open Eyes _ SKT-Tower, Seoul, Südkorea
2008
IndieLisboa 08 _ Lissabon
Preview Show 2008 _ Light Cone, Paris
WWSF Toronto
videoformes _ vidéothèque Ephémère, Clermont-Ferrand
24. Internationales Kurz Film Festival Hamburg
21. European Media Art Festival _ Osnabrück
International Filmfestival Rotterdam
2007
53. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
MIT European Short Film Festival _ Massachusetts
17. Internationales Videofestival Bochum
backup_festival _ Weimar
24. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest
Milano Film Festival 2007
Computing Music V _ Köln
