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| | | liechti filmproduktion (switzerland) #best.nr 804 dvd peter liechti “4 kurzfilme” digital versatile disc - théâtre de l’espérance (mit ronald reagan - roman signer - michail gorbatschow)
- tauwetter (ein skilift im frühling)
- ausflig ins gebirg (das haus ist nix. das zimmer ist scheisse. da will ich bleiben.)
- senkrecht / waagrecht (norbert möslang - andy guhl - roman rigner)
| 4 short films from the director of “kick that habit”, including the 1985 film “senkrecht / waagrecht” featuring sound/music by voice crack (the collaboration that led to “kick that habit”.) the other films range from 1985-1987; all are shot on super 8 or 16mm and integrate concrete and sound elements into the sound-work, along with naturally ocurring visual phenomenon; all are amazing and are almost as essential as “kick”...
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note: this is a pal dvd; if you live in the usa or a ntsc/non-pal nation and don’t possess either a multi-region dvd player or a computer that will play multi-region dvds (this disc played straight away with no modification or region-changing on both my recent and not-so-recent macs) then you will assuredly be rewarded with either a monochromatic or simply scrambled image... |
| | liechti filmproduktion press release... |
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théâtre de l'espérance
today is it nevertheless like that: world peace, up - and disarmament are abgedroschene topics and the pictures out tv and newspaper in addition are abgedroschene pictures. in the consciousness of this fact i made myself - not without desire - to pull long used the pictures of geneva summits between reagen and gorbachev again to the light...
the film is a guidance of those meets, as accurately as possible as, as the pictures, wonderful fluorescent, into my memory burned myself material for this i on the one hand as a fence guest in geneva collected, on the other hand the old tv-pictures was so for a long time worked on, until they became gefuegig.
frame to history novel more signer contributed: refrain, comment and blows air.
thaw
at present to the thaw, if the huege1 in the appenze11 with a network of green and white f1ecken are covered, g1eiten gefue11te water bucket slowly the slope up and down there sch1iesslich comes the gentle movement into violent swing shots whip by air, the buckets become by 1oechert. slowly comes the water into the f1iessen. that is the high point of a rituaß, which has deeply in the internal mountain its beginning then 1eiten water-pure by air to the thawing to hang, the water begins to flow and 1aesst the well in the valley nearly ueberf1iessen...
trip in the gebirg
during his holidays makes a trip in the unknown neighboring country. in that he finds ideal an echo there to alpine close on his bring along vest: mountain vest, civilization vest, mentality vest... occasionally will divert it this unrestrained vests to. - it needs these trips in gebirg. it needs its annoyance, in order to come its uneasiness on the trace.
"glatz and rush in and schaetteregg. bad ravine and moths, lug, dead, iron liquid manure, shit-cut back metzgertobel, frighten throat nonnenalp and cut-pointed schmalzberg and rush in hoellritzeralp and gurgen, waeldle, toebele, scratch, krottenkopf, girl fork, wad hole, schiggen, dead field and scrap iron head krofen, gufel, more schritzer, schlipfbalden and bald-move more highly more riffler, knittelkarspitzel, laufbichel, schreierkopf and sense wells gungelgruen and grottenkopf. plague chapel, saeuling, faselfad and gries and beautifully koepfle, moesle, red schrofen, schoenjoechle, schnatzerberg, hintergiggel, grins and be silent deer neck and nut/mother head witch head and schruns. with the gentleman god..."
perpendicularly/horizontal
the actions novel signers understand themselves in their movement and courses of action as space/time plastics the directions of motion in the available documents run expressed oppositely, and so the film is called also completely simply: "perpendicular/horizontally". this is underlined gegensaetzlichkeit by the action-located:
winter/ice/water/summer cloud/air. history with the abstract indications of the deaf-mute language becomes "commentated" and particularly with the music of moeslang/guhl. |
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