The Music is You   'The Music is You' has already been screened at: New York Underground Film Festival in New York, USA Skif-9 Festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia Synch Festival in Athens, Greece Videomundi in Chicago, USA Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in Utrecht, The Netherlands and so on... The program includes: Persijn Broersen and Raymond Taudin Chabot - Danse Macabre (The Netherlands 03:00) Such as on medieaval images of the Danse Macabre people from different position, profession and age were represented, we see here a presentation of people of this time localised ‘somewhere in Europe’ as if it was a contemporary dance of Death. Jeroen Offermans - The Stairway at St. Pauls (The Netherlands 08:00) This video plays with the notion that in the 60-ies and 70-ies certain rock 'n' roll recordings were supposed to contain hidden ‘evil’ or ‘Satanic’ messages when they were played backwards. One of the most famous examples is Led Zeppelin's ‘Stairway to Heaven’. Offerman practiced for three months to perfectly learn to sing this song and its words backwards. After that he went to St. Paul's Cathedral in London, a place frequently visited by tourists, to sing it in front of the stairway that lead up to the entrance. The video is a live-registration of this event but the tape is reversed (it plays from end to start) so that the song and its words sound normal again. Rineke Dijkstra - Annemiek (The Netherlands 04:00) Parallel to the production of her project "The Buzzclub/Mysteryworld" Rineke Dijkstra made a series of videoportraits of children. She asked them to bring their favourite music and filmed them listening to it. Annemiek, the girl in this video brought along the song "I wanna be with you" by The Backstreet Boys. She spontanously started to sing along. Rineke Dijkstra: "What I like myself in this videoportrait is that although the girl is too young to really understand the lyrics, she probably already has some kind of notion of desire and love." Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay – I am a boyband (Canada 05:30) What are the ingredients for a real boyband – a cute tune, dance moves and of course 4 handsome hunks, each with their own look… Peter Stel - Look at Me (The Netherlands 03:30) The tension between the image and the surrounding in which it is shown is essential in Peter Stel’s work. The roots of his films lie in an anthropological fascination in the nature and incentives of human behavior. He observes scenes from everyday life that pass us by, unnoticed as common day-to-day experiences. The physical and intrusive quality of the life size images confronts the viewer as a mirror reflection David Haines - Viv Gunzie (United Kingdom 07:00) This video tells the story of Haines’ adoration for singer Viv Gunzie, who took last place in the 1978 Song Festival in Paris. David Haines kept his memory of her alive by drawings and costumes, and recreated her on video 20 years later. Fabel - Mariska Van Gelder (The Netherlands 03:00) Girls and horses - Van Gelder's vision of this matter is both sensual and ironical. Mythology, erotic fantasies and fairy tale imagery are mixed in a lo-fi animation that is accompanied by an equaly unpolished rock song. Ann Course and Paul Clark - Recruitment Video (UK 2000 3:00min) Animation film expressively serving as video clip for a song by a punk band. Matthias Fritsch – Kneecam (Germany 04:00) A fragment of the Fuck Parade, an anti-event to the Berlin Love Parade. The most surreal scenes no longer take place on, but behind the participating vehicles. Arno Coenen & René Bosma - Folklore and Landscape (The Netherlands 03:00) This works centres on ‘gabber’, a phenomenon in music culture that originated in The Netherlands. The gabber music is combined with another Dutch export classic: Delft blue tiles. But instead of windmills, tulips and wooden shoes ‘Folklore and Landscape’ shows us gabber fans dancing in a setting with more comtemporary Dutch icons: the Erasmusbridge, Schiphol Airport, modern architecture, and petrochemical industry. Bas Van Koolwijk - Five (The Netherlands 03:00) Van Koolwijk challenges and torments the computer until it yields up its audiovisual essence. He lets the machine itself generate images that he re-inputs via another entry, in this way forcing it to make the accompanying sounds itself as well. The result is a surprise even for the artist - the medium speaks! At the studio, Van Koolwijk submits these images and sounds to further treatment, enhancing the structure in the raw material that can be detected through the noise. Rob Kennedy - Sundowning (United Kingdom 05:00) The audio output is sent to the video input. In the space between, the mixing desk controls the dance of light and shadow on the screen. What appears on the screen is the result of the video input trying to decipher the alien signal it is receiving. Joost Rekveld - Beat Time (The Netherlands 09:00) Beat Time is a video based on found-footage. It is an attempt to deal with the different perspectives inherent in the way moving image media deal with time. The video is part of the 'Sonic Fragments'-project, a follow-up of the earlier 'Sonic Images'-project in wich sound artists collaborated with filmmakers. Alexander Herzog - Luftgitarre (Germany 4:18) Twelve persons performing air guitar in urban surroundings. The sound, a composition of guitar samples, is combined with ultra dynamic image editing. Total running time: 73 minutes |
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