ROTATIONEN

by Herbert W. FRANKE
1974 / b&w / sound / 7' 42

The two 16-mm films ROTATIONEN and PROJEKTIONEN used one of the earliest three-dimensional programs for the graphic real-time output as a projection on a two dimensional screen. They were calculated and displayed with an interactive graphic screen of the Siemens Research Laboratory, Munich, in connection with a digital data processing unit. The unit allowed interactive operation – work under interactive visual control; a keyboard was used to change the elements interactively – for example, by specifying the number of picture elements, the angle of intersection, the speed of the sequence, and so on. The movement could be stopped for a static image at any time.

Herbert W. Franke created also a longer film ROTATIONEN with background electronic music by his friend and acoustic artist Peter Scheffler, who was also a professor of psychology at the University of Innsbruck. Scheffler had invented a “sound robot”, this machine detected and processed the cosmic radiation from outer space into tonal effects in the 1970s.

Other sequences of this system were named PROJEKTIONEN and used in 1974 as a stage set, projected onto a screen, for an experimental dance performance with Gerald Bohner in the "Experimentierbuehne" of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, directed by Walter Haupt.

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distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 1,37 - Standard
speed 25 fps
sound sound
rental fee 41,00 €