MIT BLICK AUF DEN TON
Der Kunstfilmtag 2009 richtet den Blick auf das Verhältnis von Bild und Ton:
Geräusch, Musik, Sprache, Stille - subtil, leise oder laut: In seiner räumlichen Präsenz schafft der Ton nicht nur eine Verdichtung von Atmosphären und Stimmungen, sondern hat auch die Fähigkeit, das bewegte Bild zu kontrastieren oder zu präzisieren.
Er bildet die Akustik, die die Wahrnehmung und Bedeutung des Bildes wesentlich mit bestimmt. Als ursprünglich autonome Ausdrucksformen gehen Bild und Ton
für die Dauer des Filmes eine Verbindung ein.
Ob synchron, asynchron, parallel oder kontrapunktisch - die Verknüpfung der beiden Rohstoffe Bild und Ton erzeugt etwas Eigenes, Neues als essentielle Ebene jeder audiovisuellen Arbeit. Sei diese Arbeit dokumentarisch, strukturell, essayistisch, poetisch oder performativ: Der/die Künstler/In bestimmt den Modus, die Art, wie sich Ton und Bild zueinander verhalten.
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Kunstfilmtag in Düsseldorf, Germany
Auditorium of the Malkasten, Artists Association • Jacobistr. 6a • 40211 Düsseldorf
The Kunstfilmtag (art-house-film-day) originated as
a free artist project and is a tradition of exhibitions, initiatives and events organised and curated by artists.
Located in the auditorium of the Artist Society “Malkasten“ in Düsseldorf it presents the diversity of film- and video creations by artists in Düsseldorf and North Rhine-Westphalia together with international media art and artistic films from all around the world in one comprehensive program.
With the making of this forum, the wish for an ani-
mated environment in the broad field of artistic video and film production is expressed by artists, in which specific content-related and theoretical demands of the genre are discussed and a cooperative exchange bet-
ween colleagues takes place. It is about an artistic inter-
est in media art and artistic film and other potential media, capturing complex processes from history and society on film through the combination of image and sound, and transferring them into the context of art. To give this cultural value of artistic film and media art a larger, internationally connected, experimental scope for presentation and reflection in the city of Düsseldorf is a key matter of the Kunstfilmtag (art film day) artist project.
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The Kunstfilmtag takes place over a single day, which simultaneously gives it the particular appeal of plenitude, sense of occasion and exchange, and is not to be compared to a short film festival. There are no restrictions on the films’ year of origin, due to a fundamental interest also in artists’ earlier work, and no prizes are awarded. The programme is developed during the year, whereby the organisers, who are artists, also invite colleagues to attend. It is about being a forum for local artists and others, where they and the public can exchange ideas on a subject, both content-
wise and theoretically. The text-filled programme brochure serves as a key component of the Kunstfilm-
tag (art film day) for this purpose. From previous events such as film evenings, readings, or lectures, the theme of the year is implemented on different levels. The year-round information portal of the website also counts as networking.
Not only media artists are invited, but also those, who are originally moving in the circles of painting, sculp-
ting, performance, photography, lyric or architecture. “Art-film” is supposed to be the total concept for the artistic film, leaving room for genre-embracing works, which recognise the picture as a place of experiments and scope of action.
The Kunstfilmtag 2009 is the second anniversary; the event is to be conducted annually with different topics, developed and extended in content.