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.
_call 2010
deadline: september, 3th, 2010
UN..SHARPNESS OF THE DOCUMENTARY
This year 2010 we are looking for videos and films which approach their subjects using documentary methods, where the relationship to the documentary can be perceived very freely and artistically.
Various aspects such as conditions and forms of representation of audiovisual documentary material as well as the question of its origin and its use lead to a wide spectrum of artistic forms.
Concerning not only the issue of proximity or distance - in relation to reality -,
this question also regards art-concepts including documentary audiovisual material
or: a targeted relation to reality which is accomplished by artificial, also non-documentary forms.
Fiction, structures, animation, text, speech, peotry and musical elements are used
in the audiovisual art field of the documentary...
The documentary purely refers to its possibilities, is an option to the matter of testimony, where every doubt whether the real, the truth, the factual can truly be portrayed, can be integrated into the discussion.
Do documentary pictures, cropped and mounted, coupled with sounds and words,
linguistic interpretations and rhythms create new fictions, are they sketches of a
reality? Are they reflections or appeals, suggestions, instructions on a view of the
world? How do these pictures stand in the context of their distribution or presen-
tation and in the context of their creation? How does the documentary manifest
itself in art?
We are interested in commentaries on the state of society, in scenarios of reality,
but also in details of day-to-day life, in encountered situations and objects,
reflections on the genre itself or an analysis of the media forms of expression
of the information society.
“..The constant uncertainty over whether documental truth is possible…, the
constant doubts about whether what we see even corresponds with reality do not
portray a shortcoming which has to be denied, but rather, on the contrary, the
one key feature of the forms of documentary.."
"..Life cannot be put into picture “as it is”. At that moment in which it becomes a
picture, it has relinquished itself and become the other of itself. It is its own
doppelganger, simultaneously real and strangely artificial, an original and a replica,
real and surreal. The documentary life as it is can be everything, except itself....” *)
We look forward to the next art film day, to a diverse analysis of the documentary
forms in video art und artistic film.
Kunstfilmtag 2010: November 6th, 2010
Entries from May, Deadline: September 03th, 2010
Length: maximum 12 minutes, the year of production absolutely free
The image shows policemen filming demonstrants during a demonstartion against
a german nationalist party on 04-01-2006
the photograph is released into the public domain.
*) from Hito Steyerl: "Die Farbe der Wahrheit", Verlag Turia und Kant, 2008