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- A remix of images and sounds, using a films original material and mixing it with new imagery.
- An audio-visual essay, which reflects upon & compares metro systems around the world. It is an exploration of a world inside the world as well as feelings, fascination, obsession, fear and themes - of survival, control & silence.
- Each beat has its own speed, each tempo suggests certain images: Timo Novotny's video for Richard Dorfmeister's Sofa Surfers remix, which was shot in Japan on Super-8 film, begins with an aerial view of a construction site and a crane. As the bass begins softly, the images start to move up along a vertical line, apparently reflecting the path of an elevator. Everything is transparent, everything is structured: The scaffolding is echoed in the picture's frame, which rolls across the screen in a way similar to a poor film projection, offsetting the illusion of movement. Or the images accentuate the music through superimpositions, short zooms and shots through cloudy glass. A small model of the Statue of Liberty then briefly disorients the viewer, and the vertical movement becomes horizontal, moving from Tokyo to Kyoto: Analogously to the laid-back drum'n'bass, the images then begin a relaxed and aimless journey through Japan's urban spaces. In this phase, the two elements almost unite, in smooth parallel movement. Near the end, the rhythm materializes in the human body. Three kids break-dance in a city park and are then joined by others. While this is not an arrival at a certain destination, it is definitely more than a chance meeting. The escalators at a large train station continue to run mechanically, and the space does not come to rest until the music has faded away. (Dominik Kamalzadeh)
- Everything worked out fine till he came up with a plan. The Plan is an action movie, about 4 people failing to rob a shop.
- Starting in one of the big advertising screens of Tokyo, Cargo introduces itself in form of a bag to a young Japanese guy called Komatsu. Meeting point: a trashcan in Shibuya (the biggest train station of Tokyo). There would be nothing unusual about this if there is not the cell phone in the bag which starts to ring all of a sudden and Komatsu gets the order to leave the bag somewhere. There the problems starts because Tokyo people are supposed to be honest and Komatsu is not really able to get rid of the bag. The bag ends up where it was found and the story could go on and on forever. Cargo is symbiosis of a musicvideo trilogy and a shortfilm. Basically the story is a loop about mysterious people, mobile phones and a bag, which becomes heavy cargo for one of the characters.
- This unpretentious video title equals the simplicity of its underlying structure. Nik Thoenen, a graphic artist by trade, constructed an installation consisting of fluorescent tubes mounted in a horizontal row especially for this video, his first. The arrangement of tubes was then "scanned" with a mounted Super-8 film camera. The method employed for this experiment had the following purpose: When neon lights are switched on, a mixture of inert gases trapped inside the tubes is electrically charged, producing an uneven, uncontrollable flickering. Together, the six stacked fluorescent tubes produce a nervous, poly-rhythmic light show which lasts for a few seconds. For a closer look at this aesthetic phenomenon, it was filmed at all possible speeds from time lapse to slow motion and with all available stops. Timo Novotny, a maker of music videos, then copied the resulting Super-8 material with a digital camera at different shutter speeds and manipulated the speed of the footage during the digital post-production phase. Finally, an atmospherically dense and somewhat eerie soundtrack by Wolfgang Schloegl was added. Dramatically, this joint project is consummated in a continuous switch from dark to light. Slowly but without hesitation, a disquieting tension builds, and resolution in the form of a "discharge" never comes. The physical qualities of neon - this "cool light of the modern" - serve as the starting point for this minimalist work's fascinating composition of light and sound.