Bad Bonn Kilbi 2007 :
7.-9. June 2007 Düdingen / Switzerland
No-Neck Blues Band – Work in Progress
Directed by Adam Mortimer, USA 1995-2005, 40 min
The video works of Adam Mortimer – a loosely affiliated member of the No-Neck Blues Band –are an unambiguously appreciative aesthetic enhancement of this Free-Form-Experimental collective’s somewhat inaccessible musical oeuvre. Informed by experimental film of the 1960s, Mortimer’s visual language always functions simultaneously on several layers of meaning, in both ad hoc and indirect fashion. His short films keep viewers guessing for long stretches, before suddenly culminating in a clear plot.
www.adamegyptmortimer.com
www.theserth.com
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Anima-Sound – Europa Tournee mit 20 km/h
SWF, FRG 1971, 40 min
Filmed by German television in 1971, this documentary accompanies the artists Paul and Limpe Fuchs and their two children on a three month tour through Europe. With an old tractor hauling a self constructed trailer that can be converted into a stage, they performed their self build instruments, percussion and electronic devices wherever they were : in Munich’s pedestrian zone, in front of a miners audience in the Ruhr District or in the countryside under the stars. This film is a rare and haunting document of some of Krautrocks outstanding pioneers.
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R. Stevie Moore Home Video Retrospective 1977-1987
Directed by R.Stevie Moore / Nuno Monteiro, compiled by Tim Tetzner, 50 min
Often referred as the forefather of lo-fi home recording and DIY outsider art, R.Stevie Moore has maintained a remarkably low profile throughout a career which began in the early-1970s. Heavily influenced by the music of Brian Wilson, The Beatles, Mothers of Invention and the British Invasion, Moore’s self-released one-man band music is a virtuoso showcase and best proof for his enormous skill, traversing countless musical forms into nearly perfect pop songs. Over the years Moore also produced a remarkable body of video works for home use only, whose no-budget production methods reflect the charming spontaenity of his eclectic and outstanding artistic vision. The program presented here is just a small but maybe representative excerpt of R. Stevie Moores extensive video production throughout the years :
“If rock and roll was a baseball game, then R. Stevie Moore would be playing left field…”
www.rsteviemoore.com
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Slide Guitar Ride
Directed by Bernd Schoch, FRG 2005, 80 min
A documentary film about Rock‘n‘Roll and being on the road. Bob Log III is a one-man band from Tucson, Arizona. He plays live in an azure-blue, close-fitting wrestling outfit, wearing a motorcycle helmet with an in-built telephone receiver that serves as a microphone. He plays „speed delta on blues“ guitar with his hands and drums and kick cymbals with his feet. Bob Log III performs over 200 concerts a year around the world: in backyards, laundromats or large concert halls. He releases his records on the renowned label Fat Possum, which is dedicated to the Blues, and meanwhile he became a star in Japan.
www.slideguitarride.de
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Danielson : A Family Movie
Directed by JL Aronson, USA 2006, 110 min
Stunning documentary about unbridled creativity vs. accessibility, Christian faith vs. popular culture, underground music vs. survival, and family vs. individuality. The film follows Daniel Smith, an eccentric musician and visual artist, as he leads his four siblings and best friend to indie-rock stardom. Beginning in 1995 when the youngest band member was 11 years old, the Danielson Famile performs in white, vintage nurse costumes to symbolize the healing power of the Good News, a recurring subject matter. Though tepidly received by the Christian music world, the South Jersey farmland-bred clan is widely embraced by the mainstream independent music community, written about in Rolling Stone, Spin, the New York Times and elsewhere as an outsider curiosity backed up by innovative, experimental music.
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Synken
Directed by Transforma, sound by O.S.T., FRG/US, 2007, 55 min
With a mix of abstract images, graphic animation, digital image effects and complex film sequences, Synken creates a fantastically spaced out, darkly romantic scenery, in which gloomy forests, tunnels, timeless lakes, cellars inhabitated by rat people, and a mysterious vagabond play the main roles. O.S.T.‘s arrhythmic crackling electronic soundtrack bathes the images in an eerily hypnotic flow. Imagery and sound together open up subtle leads that can never be read only as a linear narrative. Synken consists rather of individual narrative modules that can be potentially combined in any number of narratives.
www.shitkatapult.com
www.transforma.de
www.amhain.net
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Kill Time
Directed by Carsten Aschmann, FRG 2006, 18 min
Kill Time is a short movie about urban boredom, isolation and everyday life paranoia. Islandic artist Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson (also known of sound researchers Stilluppsteypa) is temporarly possessed by a demon but quickly finds an agreement with his misanthropic alter ego : “I tell you people are no good, they are cheap. I hate people.” Excessive consumption, addiction and elitist ideas keeps his motivation up, the body of work legitimates the artists’ schizophrenia, but the constant lack of self-confidence powers its alienation and destruction of the self. This is a fine, but not too serious effort to deal with the idea of identity in the field of experimental arts, but not completely unmistakably.
www.hula-offline.de
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Nachtreich
Column One / music : Afanassi Vieberg, FRG 2002, 9 min
From the large archive of film collage by berlin-based multi performers Column One comes this outstanding found footage work that modulates the exotism of the early days of multicolor hollywood cinema into a dreamlike and bizarre state of sleepy consciousness. Whilst the pictures starting off as a blurry and repetitive desert storm nightmare, a monologuish reflection on the weakness of the human being starts and soon ends in an argument with a ghost voice from the aether. As most work by Column One, Nachtreich (realm of night) demonstrates the dehydrated hallucinatory effects of the (human) desert and gives an unsettling idea of the absolute innersphere at the end of its day.
www.column-one.de
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Subsonics 1 – 5
Directed by Allison Walls / Brendan Walls / Oren Ambarchi, Australien 2004, 150 min
Subsonics, produced as an experimentalmusic film documentary series for the australian television back in 2004 under the supervision of Oren Ambarchi, spans an essay from the classic avantgarde of the 50s to analog sound research, new improvisation and back to the recent laptop generation. This five parts, half an hour each, features artists portaits of the following : Mulatta Records, Sue Harding, Masonna, Sun Ra, Ai Yamamoto, Fahalim Ooshcasky, Scott Horscroft, Reynols, Faust, Voice Crack, Jon, Jim Denley, Harry Partch Sachiko M & Toshimaru Nakamura, The Dramatics, Curse ov Dialect, Keith Rowe, Joyce Hinterding, Greg Kingston, GCTTCATT, Phill Niblock and finally Otomo Yoshihide.
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Tripping With Caveh
Directed by Caveh Zahedi, Music : Will Oldham, USA 2004, 32 min
It is Caveh Zahedi’s fondness for experimental setups in films and his love for Will Oldham’s music that makes this film a very intimate and felicitous concept feature : Zahedi invites Oldham to join him trippin on magic mushrooms for his next film project. As this is their first meeting ever, the setting starts off friendly but with a distance and changes completely with the flash of the hallucinogen.