Syndicate: Digital Cuts in Cologne 28-31 October

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

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Von: nils@khm.de (Nils Roeller)
Datum: 08.10.98, 14:46:57
Betreff: Digital cuts in Cologne 28-31 October

Digitale '98

Digital Cuts

Computers were not initially invented to produce images but rather to
control other machines. Undoubtably, today these control and command
machines are changing the field of film editing. The breaking up and
rebuilding of visual and sound sequences which characterizes the classical
film editing gives way to a compositional working method thus following
linear and hierarchical working methods similar to word processing. Editing
and mixing are joined together in a single apparatus. While crossing
through the shared digital code, complex layers of music, language, text,
pictures and movement are formed. Filigreed weave structures which are no
longer bound to real work spaces are the outcome. Beginnings of homebased
artwork surface, showing once again that film production can take place
outside of professional film making centres.

The Present and the Absent shows in four examples how Israelic artists in a
contemporary way handle memories in film and how they combine history with
the present. The day has been curated by Irit Batsry. Her film "The Roman
Wars"  will be screened as the opening of the day, followed by David Perlov
who will talk about his works and will show excerpts of his film "DIARY"
shot on 16mm, a diary filmed from 1973-1983.
The seventeen years old Yonatan Vinitsky has produced during the last two
years a very personal home video about identity and the history of
violence. "I LIVE YOU" will be screened for the first time during the
Digitale '98.
Tirtza Even presents her beginnings dealing with hi(story) in hyptertext.
Adam Berg shows a new version of his work "Inter-View II: Unfolded
Dialogue" which has been reworked especially for the Digitale '98.

Separating and Stringing Together shows positionings of montages in
opposition to each other. Roberto Perpignani will report about his works as
an editor of Orson Welles' films, about his collaboration with Bernardo
Bertolucci and the Brothers Taviani. Maurice Lemaître is a pioneer of
Lettrist cinema. Lettrism as the most radical art movement in the 50's had
the determination to revolutionise cinema with techniques such as cover
painting and scratches. In how far editing as a principle in film making
can be avoided will be discussed in Heinz Emigholz' talk and presentation.
In the "Chequerboard" of the fourth "Roth-Wiener-Teppich", written text and
one-dimensional pictures are interwoven, but also usually disregarded
pieces about live and "garbage".
Ingrid Wiener will report on this collaboration with different artists - a
collaboration which has been kept alive through her individual loom. Lynn
Hershman, who also deals with industry based weaving art, theorises about
the relationship between computer based work, social production of
identities and memories. She uses Ada Lovelace as a working example.
Thomas Brinkmann and the RECHENZENTRUM atomise visual images and sounds
during their performances, thereby destroying contrasts. M. Meisen-Jelas
will simultaneously translate the performance into sign language.

PIC'N'MIX Peter Whitehead loves to see himself as a magician, falconer, god
and eccentric film and rockstar of the 60's movement. Chris Petit, Iain
Sinclair and Dave McKean use reports and self-representations of this
character and through techniques of collage and montage created a
documentary - "The Falconer". Fiction and reality merge together in this
Avid-controlled assemblage about this living beat generation legend. The
first ever German screening will take place in the afternoon and is later
discussed by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair.
Remixing has already established itself in the music industry: Amos
Zamorski and Andrew Chitty are renowned for their sound and film remixes
for British television and will respond to Petit's recently procuded "radio
on" remix.
Keith Griffiths and John Wyver curate this day and show the connections
between comics, cut-ups and strange cuts. In the evening, musician Bruce
Gilbert will first transmit acoustic SOLI and will prepare us for a
screening of "RADIO ON", a long lasting visual journey.

Homework In larger pre-industrial communities spinning and weaving were a
collaborated production process of goods and tales. Production took place
in front of the homely hearth. Today, most hearths have been exchanged for
television screens. Work takes place outside the home and the telling of
tales is left to others. There are some film makers who have taken this as
a starting point and have interfered in this run of things. Andrej Ujica
and Heinz Emigholz will show us their work copied out of private recordings
and the television and will talk about their associations towards this
work: the revolution in Romanian television and the tears of a Brazilian
football star are just two examples of their electronic plundering. Thomas
Balkenhol will talk about his collaborated work with children in Turkey and
Canada. His aim was to use Dziga Vertov's Kino-Eye in the production of
contemporary technical pictures.
Yvonne Angkawidjaja and Filip Krejelk are organisers of the Fan Film
Festival in Deggendorf and will look at films and fans and their positive
response to the film and television industry.

F.M. Einheit/GRY and band will be performing in the basement of the Koelner
Filmhaus on the last evening of the festival. The sounds and voices
recorded at this event will simultaneously be screened on various internet
channels. The relationship between an on-line concert and text will be
tested.
The Filmhaus Cinema will be screening David Perlov's "DIARY III-VI".

An "Instant Archeology" project recorded on an ES 7 will be filmed and
edited during the Digitale '98. Parts of this work will be screened as a
finishing film during the final evening.

www: Timothée Ingen-Housz
ES 7: Michael Mikina, Chris Chroma, Anja Theismann
Inserts: Loki - a project of Anselm Weidmann and Peter C. Simon




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Academy of Media Arts
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