FILM IST - live music to film event presented at the International Short Film Symposium and the 50th Cork Film Festival 2005

October 8th, Millenium Hall, Cork Ireland @ 9pm

FILM IST Director: Gustav Deutsch

FILM IST.phonographics Live-music: Werner Dafeldecker Christian Fennesz Martin Siewert Burkhard Stangl

The music of FILM IST: phonographics is done live by contemporary electronic musicians/composers Werner Dafeldecker, Christian Fennesz, Martin Siewert and Burkhard Stangl. The source material is strongly related to the original score to FILM IST: 7-12, where the music was created parallel to the film editing process, and each of the composers had access to a vast collective pool of sounds deriving from all four musicians.

In its live incarnation however, there is also a strong element of improvisation involved (all 4 of them are internationally renowned improvisers) which makes every FILM IST. phonographics performance unique and very much linked to the specific space and place where it is happening.

For additional information :
http://www.sixpackfilm.com/archive/
http://www.durian.at/bio/biowerner.html
http://www.fennesz.com
http://siewert.klingt.org
http://stangl.klingt.org

FILM IST. (1-12) - DVD Installation

FILM IST.(1-12) is intended to be an artistic contribution to the discourse about those questions arising from dealing with a deeper understanding of the way optical-acoustic media work. As a work in progress the project approaches the principles which lie at the foundation of the media film. It does not claim to be a theoretical work but tries, on the basis of a long engagement with the material, to track down some of the building blocks of perception and some of the effects of moving images.

FILM IST.(1-12) the DVD installation - as a non-linear method of access - enables an extended consideration of these 'building blocks' of the visual language. Loops which repeatedly present selected sequences give them a quite different meaning to the one they have in a linear viewing context.The gaze back to the beginnings of the medium is meant to be focused in the present by its use of up-to-date techniques (montage techniques, loops, soundtrack etc.) and at the same time to face in the direction of the future.

FILM IST.(1-6) is dedicated to the science laboratory as one birthplace of film, FILM IST. (7-12) is concerned with the fun fair and Varieté as the second birthplace of film.
Especially in light of the fact that these images from the beginning of the medium have been dammed to the archives or at best seen only by film fans, the use the DVD installation as a presentation platform, enabling access by a quite different public in locations other than normal cinemas, would appear to be particularly appropriate.