TRANSFORMATION

by Telemach WIESINGER
2017 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 1S / 12' 00

Clouds fascinate. In ever-changing ways, they find new and ephemeral forms - moments and events that are unique. The Filmpoem Transformation is about a 100% chance of rainfall, heavenly plays and their reflections in the water and additionally about transformation and imagination.
Telemach Wiesinger:
"Lastly, Alexander Grebschenko designed the soundtrack of Kaleidoscope with his composition of preselected pieces of music first and foremost serving the pictures. To continue our collaboration, we decided for a return - you scratched my back and I’ll scratch yours: the picture now has to follow his composition.
Actually his film music piece, which was originally composed for the classical avant-garde film Regen (1929) forms the basis.
The exciting question: How does the music interact with new images, other lenghts of sequences and a different mind? How would a contemporary interplay of sound and image work out? "
Alexander Grebtschenko:
"The collaboration for Transformation and the approach for Transformation/ Version 1 was extremely challenging because my composition refers concretly (and also very specifically) to Joris Ivens' Regen, written for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello on the occasion of the opening of the Studio für Filmmusik of the Musikhochschule Freiburg (2012). Difficulties arose because it is not simply composed as a "mood“ or a stand-alone piece.
The nature of this unconventional task is at the same time an essential part of the concept. The idea is to start a kind of zig-zag process: the new image is interpreted musically, again reacts to the new soundtrack - and so on!
It is also charming to play with the idea of simultaneously performing Ivens' Regen and Wiesinger's Transformation..."

4 PRINTS IN DISTRIBUTION


distribution format DCP on server (SMPTE 2K)
version silent version
screen 4/3 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound silent
rental fee 40,00 €

distribution format DCP on server (SMPTE 2K)
screen 4/3 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
rental fee 51,00 €

distribution format 16mm
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound optical sound
rental fee 51,00 €

distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
rental fee 49,00 €