Canal+ just bought ‘Energie!’. It will be shown on french payTV in a program called ‘Mensomadaire‘.
Slack Video is showing ‘Energie!’ at the Hull International Short Film Festival in the UK in april.
‘Energie!’ will also be shown at Transhift in Knoxville in the USA in may.
I have been invited by Marco Mancuso from DigiCult to this year’s Dissonanze in Rome, Italy in may. He also organized a screening at the O’Artoteca gallery in Milan afterwards and a lecture I’ll give to the unsuspecting students at NABA.
Energie! will be screened at the Naoussa Int. Film and Video Festival in Greece in may and also at 20th Century on Video in Greece as well.
I have a new website/design. Welcome to Fleischfilm V4.0. The old sites are still up (except V1 which didn’t look so good really) but of course won’t be updated: Fleischfilm V3 & Fleischfilm V2
As you can see I arrived at web 2.0 and now have a blog of sorts integrated (thanks to wordpress). Also, you can now comment on my posts, films, music, whatever. If I don’t like your comment though I’ll delete it. All my films are now embedded.
While working on ‘Energie!’ I developed my own method for making electrophotographies (or kirlian photographies as they are also called). I used a 30.000 volt transformer to expose photo paper with high voltage electricity discharges. Here are a few electrophotographies that I made. Some of them I used in the film. They were exhibited at the following galleries:
2006 Maschinenblut – V8 in Karlsruhe [Germany]
2007 Energie! – Kunstverein Friedrichstadt in Berlin [Germany]
2007 Kunst in Serie (Group Exhibition) – t27 in Berlin [Germany]
2008 Energie! – O’Artoteca in Milan [Italy]
2008 Erosion (Group Exhibition) – Klaipeda Exhibition Hall in Klaipeda [Lithuania]
2010 Collectif d’en Face (Group Exhibition) in Rouen [France]
Energie! Series 12,75 cm x 17,5 cm
Maschinenblut Series 12,75 cm x 17,5 cm
Maschinenblut Series 17,5 cm x 24,25 cm
Maschinenblut Series 17,5 cm x 24,25 cm
Maschinenblut Series 50 cm x 60 cm
Maschinenblut Series 40 cm x 50 cm
Energie! Series 12,75 cm x 17,5 cm
Maschinenblut Series 12,75 cm x 17,5 cm
Maschinenblut Series 17,5 cm x 24,25 cm
Maschinenblut Series 17,5 cm x 24,25 cm
Maschinenblut Series 17,5 cm x 24,25 cm
Energie! Series 17,5 cm x 24,25 cm
Die Maschine liebt dich auf ihre Art [2000]
The machine loves you her way [2000]
Pleasing and comforting electronic compositions. ‘Quién Sabe’ makes you want to sing along. ‘Disguise In Love With You’ seduces with a modulated smile. ‘Krachendes Holz’ almost succeeds in its secret wish to become solid matter. ‘Tesla Coil’ makes its point in a quiet and thoroughly subtle way. ‘Tokyo2′ slowly drills into your head to finally discharge its electric charm full force right into your brain.
Download the songs:
Quién Sabe 1:46 minutes, 2 mb
Disguise In Love With You 3:08, 3 mb
Krachendes Holz 7:17, 6 mb
Tesla Coil 9:01, 12 mb
Tokyo2 9:24, 11 mb
Download them all in zip-archive
Listen to them here:
Quién Sabe [1:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Disguise In Love With You [3:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Krachendes Holz [7:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Tesla Coil [9:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Tokyo2 [9:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadDJ-Nazi
mixed media [2000]
Handcrafted cd-rom featuring a rich heterogenic variety of aural and visual pleasures. words can’t describe.
Download the songs:
M – Eine Stadt sucht eine lang verloren geglaubte Melodie 12:54 min, 11 mb
Der Zorn Kinskis 5:05 min, 4 mb
Orgonphaser 5:23 min, 5 mb
Gehirnakkumulator 8:59 min, 8 mb
The Pulp, The Doom and The Morricone Massacre 8:08 min, 7 mb
Clusterfuck (Thiele Remix) 2:07 min, 2 mb
0,07% Rendite 1:33 min, 1 mb
Dansez le Clouseau 2:18 min, 2 mb
Clusterfast 1:38 min, 1 mb
La Colera de Kinski 3:48 min, 3 mb
CD – Rampage 11:52 min, 11 mb
End Title 0:20 min, 0.3 mb
Download them all in zip-archive
Listen to the first five songs:
M - Eine Stadt sucht eine lang verloren geglaubte Melodie [12:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Der Zorn Kinskis [5:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Orgonphaser [5:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Gehirnakkumulator [9:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download The Pulp, The Doom and The Morricone Massacre [8:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadCybernetic Trash Technology
I have to kill you [1995]
Chaos, mayhem, death, destruction, annihilation, torture,
moments of peace and harmony,
manslaughter, dysfunctional mindmaps, terror, hatred, madness
“I was young and needed the money”
Download the songs:
Mind Manipulations (0.6 mb) 0:42 min
Body Massacre (2 mb) 2:48 min
Satanica (3 mb) 3:39 min
Clusterfuck (3 mb) 3:53 min
Clusterfuck² (4 mb) 4:35 min
Apocalypse eve (1 mb) 1:18 min
Tarantula / 100% Rigor Mortis (2 mb) 2:45 min
Miss Jones – Streben nach Sterben (3 mb) 4:00 min
Infernal Purgatory Desaster (6 mb) 6:30 min
Instant Torture (7 mb) 8:20 min
Sphereor (3 mb) 3:28 min
Shut Up (4 mb) 4:08 min
Brain (5 mb) 5:15 min
Fritz (1 mb) 1:01 min
Carnage (1 mb) 1:37 min
Ataxie (3 mb) 2:86 min
Akathisie (6 mb) 6:40 min
Akataphasie (8 mb) 8:66 min
Download them all in zip-archive
Listen to the first five songs:
Mind Manipulations [0:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Body Massacre [2:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Satanica [3:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Clusterfuck [3:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Clusterfuck² [4:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadEnergie! [2007]
HD, 5:03 minutes
From a mere technical point of view the TV/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For ‘Energie!’ an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of 30.000 volts exposes multiple sheets of photographic paper which are then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization.
Music by Jens Thiele.
Read a review at Film Threat here.
Awards:
-Best Experimental Film at Dotfest
-1. Prize at In Out Festival 2009
-1. Prize at FLEXfest 2009
-Special Jury Mention at Film Anca 2009
-Emerging Experimental Video Artist Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival
-Jury’s Choice First Prize at Black Maria Film & Video Festival
-Special Award at Optica 2007
-Best Visual Award at Fantoche 2007
-Special Mention at the International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 2008
-Best Visual Work at Vallecas Puerta del Cine
-Best Video at International Videofest Bochum
-3rd Price at Movies and Stills
-3rd Prize at Formula Mundi
-Best of Abstract Panorama at the Melbourne Int. Animation Festival
-Honorary Mention at the Milano Film Festival 2007
-Honorary Mention at Abstracta in Rome
-Honorary Mention at 25 FPS in Zagreb
-Honorary Mention at Flensburger Kurzfilmtage Tricky
-nominated for Best Experimental Short at San Joaquin Film Festival
Energie! is included in the Aurora Edition 1 DVD compilation, the Ann Arbor Film Festival DVD Time Pieces and also available on the Simultan 03 DVD
Download the HD version (720p) on Vimeo here.
Kosmos [2004]
16mm, 5:11 minutes
The mystery of the crystals under closer examination. What is it that makes them possess magic powers as claimed by mystics of all ages? Through growing crystals directly on film their mystical qualities shine straight to the screen. Unfiltered, only aided by light which gracefully breaks its rays into rich visual textures.
Read a review at Film Threat here
Awards:
-Vicki Honeyman Award for Best 16mm Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival
-Best Experimental Film at the Chicago Underground Film Festival
-Silver Award at Impakt in Utrecht
-Director’s Choice Award at the Black Maria Film & Video Festival
-Second Prize at the International Week of Short Films of San Roque
-Jury Award at the $100 Film Festival
Friendly Fire [2003]
16mm, 7:40 minutes
Burned filmstrips meet light and invade the screen with structures of residue, ashes, flames and destruction. New landscapes appear in a state of disintegration through fire. The former carrier of conserved imagery is now in full bloom of organic splendor. The lifeless filmstrips have been resurrected.
An interpretation / remix of my expanded cinema piece ‘Feuer Frei – Open Fire’.
Friendly Fire was financed in part by Jens Thiele.
Read a review by David Finkelstein on Film Threat here.