Rehearsal in Progress!
Through repetitions and increasing estrangement in the context of rehearsels in theater, film, music and art, there is a shift in the perception and gaze. REHEARSAL IN PROGRESS! oscillates between authentic moments during the production of a piece and the documented staging of a rehearsal. The selected films show scenes before a big performance, which also contains a certain charm, a specific, resistant character beyond self-optimization and efficiency thinking.
AAA (Mein Herz)
AAA (MEIN HERZ) is a single-shot work showing a young woman simultaneously performing four compositions. While preserving the original style, tempo, and rhythm of the individual works, she maintains the key of the different music pieces. Silence, music, sound and words alternate and collide.
- Niederlande
- 00:04:30
- Director: Katarina Zdjelar
- Year: 2016
- Website
Repetitions
The film is a performative approach to the subject of rhythm and repetition. The camera functions as a separate tool that combines spaces, layers and processes in a 360-degree movement. The analysis of a text, the study of a piece of music and the everyday scenarios of the outside world are melting together.
- Deutschland
- 00:24:00
- Director: Daniel Kötter
- Production: Daniel Kötter
- Photography: Daniel Kötter
- Editing: Daniel Kötter
- Music: Bernhard Lang
- Sound: Peter Haas
- Languages: en,de
- Year: 2016
- Website
Arr. for a Scene
ARR. FOR A SCENE is a documentary of two Foley artists while they are producing sounds for one of the most famous film scene in the film history (the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960). This performance is documented on 35 mm film. The original film scene will remain invisible while the viewer sees only the foley artists creating sound effects for the scene, such as footsteps, shower and door closing.
- Finnland, Frankreich
- 00:05:17
- Director: Jonna Kina
- Year: 2017
- German Premiere
Dame 2
The film DAME 2 recreates an interview on Parkinson with Helen Mirren from 1975, transcribed and performed as a song by the filmmaker Kathryn Elkin. She is backed by a choir of associates and friends. The work explores the notion of improvisation and power-balance within the recorded-as-live TV format, and re-cites/recites this particular interview, which is so often referenced as an example of historic sexism.
- Großbritannien
- 00:10:00
- Director: Kathryn Elkin
- Languages: en
- Year: 2016
Estás vendo coisas
In the darkness of a nightclub, hairdresser Porck and firefighter Dayana try their luck as Brega singers while plotting their course from studio to stage. Gestures are followed by melodies about love, betrayal, luxury and power in an experimental documentary about how pop music is experienced as a new form of labor in the Northeast of Brazil.
- Brasilien
- 00:17:34
- Director: Barbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca
- Languages: pt
- Year: 2017
