Films To Watch Days Go By – Screening and DJing by and with Cornelia Lund and Holger Lund (fluctuating images).

Films to Watch Days Go By is a format with experimental documentary short films that combine linguistic and cinematic poetry with elements of everyday life and thus have the power to transform everyday life. The subsequent DJ set creates musical references to the films and thus offers a dancing finale to the festival day.

The format Films to Watch Days Go By combines a planned screening of experimental documentary short films with a subsequent DJ set that takes up musical approaches from the films and thus creates a dancing finale to the festival days. The films from different decades combine linguistic and cinematic poetry with elements of everyday life, demonstrating everyday transformative powers. Le chant du Styrène (F 1958) is ostensibly a film commissioned by the Péchiney company, in which Alain Resnais as director presents the industrial transformation of crude oil into the plastic polystyrene in brilliant film images - poetized in alexandrines by Raymond Queneau. But clear criticism shimmers through the chic façade of the magical emergence of the lifestyle plastic.

In Susanne tanzt (D: Edgar Reitz, D 1979), Susanne prepares a solo performance inspired by Karl Valentin's sketch “The new traffic regulations”. The film observes how she develops her own dance language from her visually impaired everyday movements. At the same time, a specific cinematic choreography is created through the editing of the dancer's everyday movements and the language elements in the film's post-production.

In Hi-Fi (BR 1999), Ivan Cardoso takes the works of the poetic avant-garde in São Paulo, especially those of Augusto de Campo, as the starting point for a cinematic examination of concrete poetry. Using poetry, sound effects, music and various found footage from films such as Citizen Kane and Entr'acte, Cardoso collages a pop film poem, a “cinépoema popcreto”, as the subtitle puts it.

From a musical point of view, many of the elements used in the films - poeticized, sonicized language, loops, samples, cut-ups and collage - are characteristic of hip-hop. Taking the last film, Hi-Fi, as a starting point, the DJing develops a focus on Brazilian hip-hop, with samba-folk samples and word-sound flow once again dedicated to the transformation of everyday life: as a means of surviving in the favelas of the periphery.

More information on screening and djing: https://1to1concerts.de/aktuell/wortklang_films

More information on the festival: https://1to1concerts.de/projekte/wort-klang

Recorded DJ-Set: here.