Archive 2004
THE LEO - REEL 3
1. La Tartine
D: Guillaume Colomb, Music: Olivier Derivière
F 2004, 8:30 min, Beta SP, colour, ES
A musical comedy about the sensitive relationship between master and servant in a breakfast scenery. A tale of friendly marmalade, crispy bread, cupjumping sugar and an jealous honeypot.
2. Sarajevo Vertical
D: Toby Cornish, Music: Owen Lloyd
D 2004, 10:30 min, Beta SP, b/w, without dialogue
66 different images all recorded in Sarajevo; 66 different tones also recorded in Sarajevo, linked with a central vertikal line. Sound and image transform into a hypnotic space.
3. 2 PS
D: Maja Gehrig, Music & Sound: Didi Fromherz
CH 2003, 4:30 min, Beta SP, colour, GV
Two lovers are in a car. They are going on holiday, and it is a long drive. The windshield wipers set the rhythm. Their fantasies and daydreams lead them into life-threatening and love-threatening situations.
4. Imminence
D: Willem Peleau, Music: Matthieu Gain
F 2004, 9:45 Min, Beta SP, colour, without dialogue
An ageing man looks back on his life and realizes that art is the link between his memories. The sound and the music in this film join the separate fragments of memory into a whole. Each memory is bound to one sound, the music arises from the combined effect of the separate elements.
5. Numbo
D: Michael Boland, Music: Niko Schauble
AUS 2004, 17 min, Beta SP, colour, OV
Frank, whose wife has just left him, is filled with rage and hate. His dark aggressive side is reflected in powerful, driving percussion whereas the comic side of things is stressed by the use of wooden drums. Three dancing children with a third musical theme mirror the innocence of the surroundings. This theme is lost, however, as Frank’s increasing insanity is represented by the percussion.
6. (Un)Sichtbar
D & Sounddesign: Marco Huber
CH 2004, 4 min, Beta SP, colour, GS
Who doesn’t know the situation? A family is on its way in the car from A to B so that the stress and the fights are a foregone conclusion. And who suffers most? The poor kids, of course. This film tells the story of a little boy who sees strange thing out the window during a car trip with his parents, whose nerves are frazzled. But no one listens to him when he tries to tell them about his discoveries.
7. Egg
D: Benh Zeitlin, Music: Andrew Platt
USA 2004, 8:47 min, MiniDV, colour, without dialogue
The epic tragedy in the microcosm, "Egg" is a surrealistic interpretation of Herman Melville’s "Moby Dick". The dense atmosphere of this bizarre film is produced to a large extent by the levels of sound, which is sometimes like a cover in the background, sometimes close to the images in best video clip manner.
8. Soundminiature 1
D: Joni Braun, Music: Jean Delouvroy
D/B 2004, 3:32 min, MiniDV, colour, without dialogue
The record is spinning. The sound creates the image, the image creates the sound. Strobe light reflexes on the retina and rotating string music on the eardrum.
9. Motion Trio
D: Alicja Schatton/Przemyslaw Fik, Music: Motion Trio
PL 2004, 7:48 min, MiniDV, colour, without dialogue
A short film about an unusual band. The three accordion players of Motion Trio are preparing for a show. Interested in contemporary music, jazz and heavy metal they create a novel accordion sound which makes their music sound electronic.
10. Rendez-Vous
D: Pierre-Alfred Richard, Music: Björk
F 2003, 9 min, 35 mm, colour, without dialogue
This film takes up poetically the myth of the "Phantom of the Opera". Motion is not merely counterpoint to the music but a mode of expression of its own. Caught between body and spirit, a dancer, alone in the opera house at night, lets his heart speak through choreographic virtuosity. His movements range from the eccentric to the pitiless, from revelation to disguise.
9. Alt I Alt
D: Torbiørn Skårild, Sound: Nina Skogtrø
N 2003, 4:45 min, 35 mm, colour, without dialogue
The scenery is simple: a swimming-pool, in which a man jumps from the diving-board. But he never reaches the water. The jump is repeated over and over again. The editing and the accompanying sound produce their own rhythm which results in an almost unbearable suspense.
