KREIDLER in 2+2=22 [The Alphabet] by EMIGHOLZ
KREIDLER Thomas Klein | Alexander Paulick | Andreas Reihse | Detlef Weinrich in Heinz Emigholz: Recording the recording of ABC by KREIDLER in Tbilisi, Georgia Script and Notebooks: Heinz Emigholz | Voice: Natja Brunckhorst | Cinematography, Editing: Heinz Emigholz, Till Beckmann | Sound Design, Mixing: Jochen Jezussek | Original Sound, Postproduction: Till Beckmann | Production Management: Zaza Rusadze | Producer: Heinz Emigholz, Andreas Reihse | Produced by Heinz Emigholz Filmproduktion | ABC by KREIDLER released by Bureau-b 2017, colour 88min World Premiere at 67. Berlinale Film Festival 2017.
Further Festival Screenings |
A city portrait
The off-screen voice |
Reviews
Ein sechsminütiger Trailer oder doch ein Musikvideo? Heinz Emigholz war mit Kreidler in Tiflis, als die Band dort ihr neues Album aufnahm. Jetzt gibt es die ersten vertonten Aufnahmen.
Centro di Tblisi nell'estate del 2013. La voce narrante, di Natja Brunckhorst, riflette sulla natura delle strade e degli spazi pubblici. In uno studio di registrazione in legno di quercia, la band Kreidler di Düsseldorf registra l'album ABC. L'atmosfera è concentrata. Il terzo elemento, tra i tagli cinematografici, sono i quaderni familiari del regista, con le graffette che assicurano all'interno biglietti del cinema o ritagli di catalogo. Ogni quaderno porta una lettera e appaiono in ordine alfabetico. Con questo primo episodio di "Streetscapes", Heinz Emigholz riavvia la sua serie "Photography and beyond" e apre un nuovo affascinante capitolo.
14-mal war Heinz Emigholz mit seinen Filmen bereits auf der Berlinale. Das erste Mal 1982 mit NORMALSATZ, 2014 das bisher letzte Mal mit THE AIRSTRIP. Nach THE AIRSTRIP kündigte Emigholz an, dass er zukünftig neue Wege gehen werde. Ein Wechsel ins fiktionale Fach sei nicht ausgeschlossen. Nun ist er zurück und das gleich mit vier Langfilmen in der Berlinale Sektion Forum.
Worn-down pavements, trees that jut out of the concrete, casting shadows on to crumbling façades. The centre of Tbilisi in the summer of 2013. Glimpses of side and main streets, over railings and under balconies, of an architectural cacophony. The voiceover spoken by Natja Brunckhorst reflects on the nature of streets and public spaces. In an oak-panelled sound studio, the Düsseldorf band Kreidler records their album "ABC". The drummer wears headphones; his drum kitis placed on a carpet whose colour matches the mosaic floor, which is covered with cables and electronic equipment. Only the complex geometry of the soundproofed ceiling is white. The atmosphere is focused. The third element between which the film cross cuts are the director's familiar notebooks, being rapidly leafed through as always, with their close scrawl and catalogue clippings pasted inside. Each notebook carries a letter and they appear in alphabetical order. With this first part of the STREETSCAPES, Emigholz reboots his "Photography and beyond" series, opening up a fascinating new chapter.
In part a response to Godard's ONE PLUS ONE, which observed the Rolling Stones in the studio, it departs markedly from the brisk yet serene pace of an Emigholz architecture film, achieving a loose rhythmic intricacy that matches both the music that is being created in the wood-paneled studio and the bustle of city life outside.
No conocía a Hemigholz. Después de ver 2 + 2 = 22 lo cuento ya entre mis favoritos. Bellísimo ensayo sobre arquitectura. Cada "descanso" de la sala de grabaciones se convierte en un ejercicio profundo de reflexión sobre la ciudad.
I enjoyed the imagery and ideas in this piece. Narrative loosely woven together by scenes cut between Kreidler rehearsing and streets of Georgia. Vague moments of tedium watching the band rehearse, interrupted by the constant shifting of focus of the camera lens. The mundane becomes an outline, then a blur. Punctuated abstract musings on consciousness and evolution through ideas, structures and travel.
Emigholz makes you see things in an altogether new way.
A colorful and lucid swim in the neglected spirit of architectural progress colliding into the simple concrete diminution of its undulating rhythms. Flowing in and out of its facade immediately torn straight from the traces of its shimmering glint of human progress still encompassing our destiny it never promised to be, that is, the avant-garde that prevails in the tailwind of architectural history.
In confronting written and spoken text passages with street views full of architecture and the documentation of the slow process leading to the multi-layered electronic textures in the recording studio Emigholz creates a fresh experimental attitude. |