Experimental Film
DER WALD, the German forest, is a cinematic and musical questioning of German Romanticism and its receptive coincidence of sentimentality and the madness of annihilation, or simply, “eine erinnerungsmusikalische Wende um 180Grad”.
“Wenn der braune Eichensaft aus dem Biedermeierrahmen tropft!”
with PHØNIX16
Veronika Böhle, Christoph Brunner, Anna Bineta Diouf, Susanne Fischer-Müncheberg, Sara Gouzy, Rory Green, Lawrence Halksworth, Oskar Koziolek, Will Kwiatkowski, Jason Lee, Douglas Nasrawi, Anna Smith, Hitoshi Tamada, Michael Taylor, CarrieAnne Winter, Eva Zwedberg – singers, Timo Kreuser – artistic direction, Sonya Levin - actress
Music: Martin Schüttler, Mathias Monrad Møller, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss
Berlin 2022, Tel Aviv 2023
DER WALD
by Timo Kreuser & Luka Umek, produced by PHØNIX16, Germany/2022, HD, 70min
Film
by Philipp Hartmann with OEIN and PHØNIX16 – Germany/Bolivia 2021, HD/16mm, 105 Min
In March 2020, 25 young musicians from the Bolivian Experimental Orchestra for Indigenous Instruments OEIN came to Germany to play concerts in Berlin and Dresden. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the concerts were cancelled, then Bolivia shut down its borders – and the musicians were stuck in the Music Academy in Rheinsberg/Brandenburg for almost 3 months.
Together with their german colleagues of the ensembles PHØNIX16 and noiserkroiser, they face the crisis developing several musical projects, a big part of them using improvisations in contemporary music.
By leaving the stage mainly to the musicians and their performance, the camera becomes part of the improvisation, also opening up the question of how music can be filmed.
A film about music as a form of communication in a state of exception.
MIKRO
PHONIE II
Film
Crossing the Alps to Italy in an old Volkswagen Beetle. With Karlheinz Stockhausen and the voices of PHØNIX16.
A Super8-Found-Footage-Film.
by Philipp Hartmann & PHØNIX16. Deutschland 2021, Super8/HD, 14:50 min
Experimental Film
DRZAVA
by Adnan Softić Germany/2021, HD, 40 min
"Država" - the word means something like "state" in the South Slavic languages. You can connect it with the failed Yugoslavian community or, as the Berlin vocal collective PHØNIX16 does, name a "composed sound action in state-founding dimensions" after it. A federal people's republic of the arts that exists temporarily rather than territorially - namely as soon as and as long as its members proclaim it through artistic expression.
Timo Kreuser | Konzept und künstlerische Leitung, Adnan Softi |Regie Miguel Hilari | Kamera, Edit, Alice Hamann | Licht
Achtbrücken Köln, 2021
image credits Adnan Softić
