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Sonic Fragments

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4 March 2002
22:00 — 00:00


Location: Tivoli de Helling
Sonic Fragments is het vervolg op Sonic Images, een project dat digitale film en elektronische muziek samenbracht. Zeven toonaangevende figuren uit de hedendaagse beeldcultuur maakten een remix, puttend uit het beeld- en geluidsarchief van Sonic Images—een onderzoek naar de ongekende mogelijkheden van digitale beeldmontage.

DE TOEKOMST VAN DE CINEMA IS DIGITAAL… en RE-MIX

Sonic Fragments is een manifest in het medium. Voortgekomen uit de mogelijkheden van de digitale montagetechnologie zelf, wordt de identiteit van het digitale medium—knippen en plakken—onderzocht. Re-mixen is principieel onvoltooid; het proces zou in theorie eindeloos kunnen doorgaan. De re-mix herinnert ons eraan dat het rationele slechts één mogelijk systeem is naast andere: het volstaat dat er een systeem bestaat, ook al is dat systeem ogenschijnlijk onlogisch, nodeloos ingewikkeld en merkwaardig uiteenlopend.

Het project Sonic Fragments bestaat uit zeven korte experimentele re-mixes van zeven regisseurs, elk met een zeer uiteenlopende achtergrond: van experimentele film, speelfilm, documentaire, televisie, grafisch ontwerp en beeldende kunst tot het nieuwe terrein van VJ-ing. Het basismateriaal wordt gevormd door zes korte films uit het project Sonic Images (gemaakt in coproductie met de VPRO), dat de relatie onderzoekt tussen elektronische muziek en het digitale beeld, van Stockhausen tot Squarepusher, en waarbij vijf van de zeven regisseurs betrokken waren.

Miriam Kruishoop Frank Scheffer Joost Rekveld Misha Klein

Miriam Kruishoop

Miriam Kruishoop, born in the Netherlands, graduated with honors from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Unprecedented Kruishoop won the Citroen Award at the Dutch film festival for best Graduation film, despite the fact she was only in her 3rd year. She wrote and directed her first feature film Vive Elle when she was in her 4th year, then received a grant from the Dutch Film Foundation to finish the film while she was still in school. This was unheard of as students normally are not allowed to receive film grants.

Frank Scheffer

Frank SCHEFFER (1956, The Netherlands) graduated in 1982 from the Dutch Film and Television Academy. Before that, he studied at the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven and followed courses in Experimental Film by Frans Zwartjes. Scheffer has a long-standing reputation as a maker of over 40 experimental documentaries about musical masters of the 20th century. He has received many awards and was honoured with a retrospective at the MoMA New York. He works with prominent post-war composers like Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Frank Zappa. In his films, image and sound are orchestrated to offer the audience a unique visual and audial experience. For the 40th edition of IFFR, he made the creative documentary Tiger Eyes (2011). The Inner Landscape (2019) had its world premiere at IFFR 2019 as its closing film. The filmmaker founded Allegri Company, a production company that specialises in music and documentaries.

Joost Rekveld

Joost Rekveld is an artist who is motivated by the question of what we can learn from a dialogue with machines. In his work, he explores the sensory consequences of systems of his own design, often inspired by forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. These systems combine temporary dogma’s in the form of procedures or code, with more open-ended elements such as material processes or networks of interactions that are too complex to predict. His films, installations and performances are composed documentaries of the worlds opened by such systems. In their sensuality they are an attempt to reach an intimate and embodied understanding of our technological world. His abstract films have been shown world-wide in a wide range of festivals and venues for experimental film, animation or other kinds of moving image. He had retrospectives at the Barbican in London and the Ann Arbor film festival amongst others, and in 2017 he was filmmaker in focus at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Individual films were screened at hundreds of venues, including the ICA and the Tate Modern in London, The Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. His film “#11, Marey <-> Moire” was the first Dutch film ever to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival.

Misha Klein

Micha Klein (1964) explores the media based culture of our time using advanced computer technology.  Art historical references, youth culture, and mass media are the recurring subjects of his work.  Starting out as a painter, growing tired with the post-modern condition and looking for a new field of artistic innovation, he discovered an unused Amiga computer in the cellar of The Rietveld Art  Academy in 1987, and quickly recognized the opportunities it offered for new artistic directions, ways to present art, and ways to redefine the position of the artist. Technology was still in its infancy, but the possibilities of what would become multi-media were already evident to Klein, who dropped the paintbrush in favor of the mouse immediately.   Klein stood at the cradle of the digital revolution that transformed photography and art forever.

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