" – Peu importe d’où l’on vient. Il n’y a pas de tonique. Le thème et son développement ne sont qu’un mirage…
Il y a une musique toujours inattendue.
– Et les dissonances ?
– Dieu les a créées, elles aussi…"
Jaume Cabré - "Voyage d'hiver" - 2014

”La terre, il se pourrait bien après tout que ce soit une espèce
de merveilleux petit appareil enregistreur, plaçé là par on ne sait qui,
pour capter tous les bruits qui circulent mystérieusement dans l’Univers.”
Pierre Reverdy - ”En vrac” - 1929

”J’entends tous les bruits de la terre grâce à mes oreilles et mes nerfs de cristal
dans lesquels circulent le feu du ciel et celui des volcans.”
Michel Leiris - ”Le point cardinal” - 1927

"L'écoute, c'est l'ombre de la composition"
Pascal Dusapin - 2008

 

10/12/2023

Sync & Mechanical principles



 

2 experimental movies relating to machinery, mecanics and visual perception.


"Sync" by Max Hattler (2010)

Max Hattler is a media artist working primarily with animation and audiovisual performance. His work explores the relationships between abstraction and figuration, aesthetics and politics, sound and image, precision and improvisation, being able sometimes to create powerful political statements while eschewing the traditional constraints of narrative, choosing a poetics of implication over the mere construction of a discourse. 

He created the kaleidoscopic political short films "Collision" (2005) and "Spin" (2010), many other works and this psychedelic animation loops "Sync".

 

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"Mechanical principles" by Ralph Steiner  (1933)

Ralph Steiner (1899 – 1986) was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s. He probably has been the first American abstract film-maker, with "H2O" (1929), an ode to water, followed by other experiments, sometimes of a political nature when he joined Nykino, a loose coalition of New York-based cinematographers who pooled footage for use in left-wing newsreels shown at worker's rallies, conventions and during strikes.

 

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