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Animation and Musique concrète 2021
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Making a Diagonal with Music
Aura Satz
Beatriz Ferreyra enters a room and already stops with excitement in the doorway. The Argentinean pioneer of musique concrète composes with everyday sounds.
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Making a Diagonal with Music

Hacer una diagonal con la música
Aura Satz
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
Documentary Film
UK
2019
11 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English

Beatriz Ferreyra enters a room and already stops with excitement in the doorway: “Look at all the sounds it makes, nieaowowowa!” The Argentinean composer and pioneer of musique concrète collects sounds made by everyday objects. Aura Satz’s minimalist portrait follows the sound hunter at work, shows her gestures and her still undiminished joy of discovery when arranging the sounds.

André Eckardt

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Director
Aura Satz
Cinematographer
Sam Williams
Editor
Aura Satz
Producer
Aura Satz
Sound
Gernot Fuhrmann
Score
Beatrix Ferreyra
Camera Lucida 2023
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Man in Black
Bing Wang
A theatre in Paris becomes the stage of an impressive encounter: The aged composer Wang Xilin is naked – and exposes the cruelties of the communist regime in China.
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Man in Black

Man in Black
Bing Wang
Camera Lucida 2023
Documentary Film
France,
USA,
UK
2023
60 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

Wang Xilin does not enter the stage in a suite, as the title might suggest, but completely naked. He stretches and bends, appears to familiarise himself with his surroundings, does some vocal exercises, sits down at the piano. Wang Xilin is one of China’s most important composers of contemporary music, having written his first symphonies in his youth. Wang Bing gives the 86-year-old more than a little space. For his portrait, he presents him with the entire Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris.

This is where Wang Xilin reviews his life of torture and oppression, recapitulates the tribulations in communist China, reports knocked-out teeth and nightmares, suicides among intellectuals. His testimony is frequently underlaid, sometimes even drowned out by grandiose musical arrangements. When an orchestra thunders from offscreen, Wang Xilin’s body rears up – “Man in Black” is also an exorcistic oral history. The composer turns himself into his own instrument, into the medium of a violent epoch, sharing his emotions literally unveiled.

Carolin Weidner

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Director
Bing Wang
Cinematographer
Caroline Champetier
Editor
Claire Atherton
Producer
Lihong Kong, Sonia Buchman, Nicolas R. De La Mothe
Co-Producer
Karin Chien, Liza Essers
Sound
Erwan Kerzanet, Emmanuel Soland
Score
Xilin Wang
World Sales
Lya Li
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Ying Wang, Xilin Wang, Xiaoxia Zhou
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
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Max Cooper: Penrose Tiling
Jessica In
A rhythm fragment becomes a percussion ensemble without a single identical loop. Tiles proliferate into patterns that are never quite the same. Infinity in animated beats.
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Max Cooper: Penrose Tiling

Max Cooper: Penrose Tiling
Jessica In
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
Animated Film
UK
2019
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

In 1974, the mathematician Penrose discovered pairs of tiles that form an infinite plane without repeating patterns. Inspired by this, Max Cooper uses a rhythm fragment of one instrument to compose a percussion ensemble without a single identical loop. Jessica In contributes animated tile ornaments without symmetries that are reminiscent of a mandala and visualise the idea of infinity.

Cornelia Friederike Müller aka CFM

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Director
Jessica In
Animation
Jessica In