Composer in storm of silent applause: sounds and images from Beethoven to Fred Frith
NICOLAS HUMBERT – WERNER PENZEL: Middle of the Moment
B/W, Switzerland, documentary, in English, 80 mins, 1995
In line with the name of the directors’ independent film company (CinéNomad), Middle of the Moment is a cinematic poem on the nomadic lifestyle, freedom, and the eternity of the moment, with the active involvement of American poet and philosopher Robert Lax and composer Fred Frith. The film is a lyrical-sensitive document of a three-year journey from Europe to Africa and the Sahara. An awesome visual and auditory poetic meditation on time, space and culture.
TONY CONRAD: The Flicker
B/W, USA, 28 mins, 1965
The violinist and minimalist composer Tony Conrad, one of the key figures of the American underground of recent decades is also one of the most radical and best-known structuralist film-makers. The Flicker, through the manipulated sound of the projector, “film feedback” and pulsing, abstract image rhythm, produces “content” beyond time and space, opening up to us a new, hallucinative and captivating world of the moving picture.
TONY CONRAD–BEVERLY CONRAD: Straight and Narrow
B/W USA, 10 mins, 1970
Straight and Narrow, intimately fused with director Tony Conrad’s progressive music, is a kind of moving abstract expressionist painting, a projection of what seems like a second dimension in fluctuating existence. The Flicker and Straight and Narrow are unique experiences that change the way we see films.
Series editor: ZSOLT SŐRES
The films are shown as informative screenings, projected from DVD.
The programme is subject to change.
