Description
DESCRIPTION
‘Even a cursory look at the history of architecture and the visual and sonic arts will make it abundantly clear that there is an intricate linkage’, writes professor, curator and author Timothy Druckrey in his essay for Vertical Cinema. The essay offers a view into the multimedia history of ‘sensory architecture’ and large-scale cinematic architectures of the last century. It simultaneously provides a setting for the Vertical Cinema project in the context of monumental cinematic imaginary. Vertical Cinema is a series of ten commissioned works printed on 35 mm celluloid and projected vertically with a custom-built projector in 1:2.35 aspect ratio or vertical cinemascope. All together, they comprise a 90-minute programme solely for projection on a monumental, vertical screen. This is the starting point for Vertical Cinema, the third and final Kontraste Cahier. The small publication presents, the essay by Timothy Druckrey, on the rich history of expanded and exploded cinema, along with stills and texts about the ten commissioned works by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers and audiovisual artists.
CONTENTS
- MOUNT VERTICAL
Mirna Belina - Sensory Architecture and the Cinematic Imaginary
Timothy Druckrey - FILM: #43
Joost Rekveld - FILM: BRING ME THE HEAD OF HENRI CHRÉTIEN!
Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovačič - FILM: CHROME
Esther Urlus - FILM: COLTERRAIN
Tina Frank - FILM: DEORBIT
Makino Takashi & Telcosystems - FILM: LOUVER
Björn Kämmerer - FILM: LUNAR STORM
Rosa Menkman - FILM: PYRAMID FLARE
Johann Lurf - FILM: V~
Manuel Knapp - FILM: WALZKÖRPERSPERRE
Gert-Jan Prins & Martijn van Boven - MAKING OF: PRESERVATION, PRESENTATION, EDUCATION
Alejandro Bachmann & Matteo Lepore - MAKING OF: PROFESSION: PROJECTIONIST
Arie Altena