Videoprogramm Stadt - Klang - Raum

FRIDAY, July 8, 2005, 8 p.m.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund

Sound - Space - City
A Film and Audio Program
Part 1: City Sound / City Image
curated by Dieter Daniels (HGB Leipzig)
Duration: ca. 130 min.

Films, audio pieces and manifestoes in which the city becomes the protagonist. Predecessors of contemporary audio art are presented as an audio visual program of the early avant-garde - with a prospect on the video camcorder revolution.


Luigi Russolo (i)
"Intonarumori", recordings of precisely reconstructed machines,
excerpts from Russolo's manifesto on audio art  (1913)

Dziga Vertov (su)
"Man with a Movie Camera", SU, 1929, 68 min.

Gerd Conradt (d)
"Der Videopionier - Sechs Geschichten zur Stadtteilsanierung", D 1973-1983, 60 min.

Paul Garrin (us)
"Man with a Video Camera (Fuck Vertov)", USA 1989, 6 min.


SATURDAY, July 9, 2005, 8 p.m.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund

Sound - Space - City
A Film and Audio Program
Part 2: Ruttmann/Remake
curated by Dieter Daniels (HGB Leipzig)
Duration: ca. 90 min.

In the mid-10920s Walter Ruttmann (1887-1941), German pioneer of  "absolute film", leaves abstraction behind and turns towards the city as his new topic. In Berlin he creates a film (1927) and an audio play (1930) - both of them pioneering works in their respective fields. After a long oblivion Ruttmann is recently being re-discovered - amongst others through artistic hommages and remakes.

Walter Ruttmann
"Berlin. Sinfonie der Grosstadt", D 1927, DVD, ca. 65 min.

Gusztav Hamos
"Berlin Retour", D 1996, video, 7 Min.

Walter Ruttmann, "Weekend", D 1930, Hörspiel, CD, 11.30 Min.
and examples from "Weekend Remix" 1998 (CD intermedium rec. 003, Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Hoerspiel und Medienkunst)

Kirsten Winter, Gerd Gockell
"Restored Weekend", D 2003, 35 mm Film / DVD, 5 min.