Archive 2005
THE LEO - REEL 2
Th, November 10 5:30 pm CinemaxX 4
Sa, November 12 5:45 pm CinemaxX 4
1. À Quai
Director: Anne de la Roche Saint-André, Music: Cesar und Mauricio Amarante
F 2004, 5 min, 35 mm, colour, without dialogue
The striking feature of this film is its expressive sound track. A fitting complement is the figure of the captain who is followed by a stray dog and is witness to a bar brawl.
2. Quietsch
Director: Baran Bo Odar, Sound-Design: Girls Girls Girls
D 2004, 7:45 min, 35 mm, colour, without dialogue
Three places, three children, three vastly different scenes. A furious crescendo of sound and image, an ironical musical, in which each gesture has its appropriate place.
3. Ikiliikkuja (Perpetuum Mobile)
Director: Thomas Bartels, Music: Markku Peltola
D 2005, 5 min, 35 mm, bw, without dialogue
Black, white, two men, a bottle and a never-ending game. The music was written by Markku Peltola, well known as main actor in Kaurismäki's "The Man Without A Past".
4. The perpetual twilight of Gregor Black
Director: Nigel Atkinson/Huw Davies, Music: Paul Leonard-Morgan
Scotland 2004, 11 min, 35 mm, bw, without dialogue
An atmospheric and surreal tale of married life: a husband, a wife, a pair of shoes and a cinema.
5. Video killed the Radiostar
Director: Lauri Trillitzsch/Oliver Kussinger, Music: Handsome Hank and His Lonesome Boys/The Buggles
D/CH 2004, 5 min, DVD, colour, EV
"Video killed the Radiostar" quotes with pictures ranging from Kraftwerk to the Smashing Pumpkins only to end up with Méliès. Video may have killed the radio star but cinema lives on!
6. _grau
Director: Robert Seidel, Music: Heiko Tippelt/Philipp Hirsch
D 2004, 10 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue
Fragments of the memory of a car crash, joined to form tableaux between black and white. These scraps of pictures are complemented and contrasted with scraps of musical back-ground.
7. Hands away
Director: Sven Volz, Music: Interpol
D 2004, 3 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue
Boys and girls from the dance club at Christian-Hiller school in Stuttgart dance to a song by Interpol. The pupils move with refreshing and charming freedom to the melancholy music.
8. Tube
Director and Sound-design: Christopher Steel
GB 2004, 8 min, DVD, bw, without dialogue
A very personal and private look at London's underground, the Tube. The idealized and lyrical look without language and colour contrasts with rush-hour reality.
9. Prudence - " A tort ou a raison"
Director: Joris Clerte/Philippe Massonet, Prudence (Joris Clerte/Emmanuel Enault)
F 2004, 2 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue
If the marks on a tablecloth could tell a story, this would be one. One about the marks from a wine glass discussing with yesterday’s French loaf the advantages of life per se, for example...
10. One Year in Paradise
Director and Sound: Thomas Vespermann
D 2005, 7 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue
One year of the scenery of a stretch of land with all its natural beauty portrayed in twelve tableaux from January to December. Time-lapse photography turns a few hours' photos into seconds.
11. Tom woke up but Tim did not
Director: Sven Sauer, Music: Henrik Kristen/Richard Kristen/Oliver Schmidt
D 2005, 5:30 min, DVD, colour, ES
Tom wakes up in the middle of the night because of indefinable noises. Frightened, his fantasy begins to take flight almost boundlessly in the dark. Tim wakes up a while later and experiences the noises quite differently...
12. Alecto
Director: Simon Ruben, Music: Tom Rowland
GB 2004, 10 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue
One day one of Slava's pupils plays a long forgotten tune from Slava's youth on the violin. The dense atmosphere in the film is created by the sound track and accentuated noises.
13. Spielgefährten
Director: Ines Thomsen, Music: Jean Pacalet
D 2004, 7 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue
An old man is fascinated secretly observing people through his telescope. The partly disharmonious music emphasizes the monotony and the hope which this film attempts to convey.
14. Inside
Director: Philipp Hirsch, Music: Heiko Tippelt
D 2005, 7 min, DVD, colour, EV
"Inside" reveals what and how the protagonist subjectively "sees" when she is in an existential quandary. Tones of the outer world mix with the protagonist's inner world.
15. Into Pieces
Director: Guilherme Marcondes, Sound: Paulo Beto
BR 2005, 1:15 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue
A figure attempts to play a simple game and is aided each time by a helper - to its growing frustration! This very short animated film creates with its speed and imaginative sound an unusual density - and is simply fun!