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Big cinema, small cinema #70 – What's ringing, scratching, rustling there in the film?

Film still from SUSAN THROUGH THE CORN: A woman walks through a cornfield. You see her from behind, wearing colorful clothes.

Sun 22.09.
16:00

Since the first time films were shown in 1895, they have been accompanied by sounds and music. Noises, music, sounds and language are combined to make a soundtrack. Before we make our own sound experiments and create a soundtrack to OVER TEA KETTLE and play it live, we will discover what can be seen and heard in seven short films: FLUKE by Emily Breer (USA 1985) travels through the air. HORSE OVER TEA KETTLE (USA 1962) by Robert Breer lets colors and shapes fly and in FLOCKENSPIEL I (Bärbel Neubauer, USA 1965) they swirl across the black screen. In Len Lye's FREE RADICALS (USA 1958), lines and patterns dance to the rhythm of the sounds. In SUSAN THROUGH CORN (Kathleen Laughlin, USA 1985) we walk through a cornfield and Gunvor Nelson lets us listen to a girl in MY NAME IS OONA (USA 1981). We experience wondrous transformations in LES PAPILLONS JAPONAIS (Segundo de Chomón, F 1908). (Eunice Martins)
For all ages 8 and up.

Films:
Susan Through Corn Kathleen Laughlin USA 1974 16 mm without dialogue 2 min.
Fluke Emily Breer USA 1985 16 mm without dialogue 6 min.
Flockenspiel I Bärbel Neubauer D 2002 DVD 3 min.
My Name Is Oona Gunvor Nelson USA 1969 16 mm engl. OV 10 min.
Les Papillons Japonais Segundo de Chomón F 1908 35 mm silent 4 min.
Free Radicals Len Lye USA 1958 35 mm without dialogue 5 min.
Horse Over Tea Kettle Robert Breer USA 1962 16 mm without dialogue 8 min.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media