A silent rockumentary
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A Silent Rockumentary - Mardi Gras.BB |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 55 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without information; free |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonas Grosch |
| script | Jonas Grosch |
| production |
Katharina Wackernagel Jonas Grosch |
| music | Mardi Gras.BB |
| camera | Matthias Hofmeister |
| cut | Jonas Grosch |
| occupation | |
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A Silent Rockumentary - Mardi Gras.BB is a documentary by Jonas Grosch about the Mannheim-based independent band Mardi Gras.BB from 2012. Grosch also wrote the screenplay and focuses on the dwindling added-value base through music downloads from the Internet . As a special stylistic device, he relies on the now unfamiliar form of the silent film .
The film celebrated on 2 and 3 November 2012 in the 34th Biberach Film Festival Premiere where he was awarded with the "documentary Biber" as best documentary. After previews from June 21, 2013 in selected cities, it officially opened in German cinemas on June 27, 2013.
content
The camera accompanies Mardi Gras.BB during the production of their tenth album Crime Story Tapes in the Frankfurt studio of Gordon Friedrich from the Hazelwood label and on a concert tour in North America. Interviews with the band founders Jochen “Doc” Wenz and Uli “Reverend” Krug were also staged. Excerpts from both recording sequences have been woven into a story that tells of the hardships of creating and the difficulties in marketing it, which have resulted from the changes in the music business due to the Internet.
The interview contributions are superimposed on intertitles compressed as they were common in the silent movie. This means is also used to divide the entire work into five acts .
music
The music for all scenes was taken entirely from the available Mardi Gras.BB albums, with spoken sequences being used again and again.
background
The film was not conceived as a silent film from the start, but was recorded with a soundtrack . The idea for this unusual form of documentation only emerged when it was completed as a special artistic means of expression.
Award
- Dokubiber (2012) as best documentary at the Biberach Film Festival
Web links
- A Silent Rockumentary in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Web presence of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c MARDI GRAS.BB - A silent rockumentary. Film screening in the festival program. (No longer available online.) 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 26, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b Prize winners of the 34th Biberach Film Festival. “Docubiber: Jonas Grosch convinced with 'Mardi Gras.BB - A Silent Rockumentary' - the first documentary about a music band that is told as a silent film. Jury: Peter Goedel (Chair), Michael Spiegel, Klaus Peter Karger. “Article on the homepage of the Biberach Film Festival. Retrieved June 26, 2013 .
- ↑ This is what the director explained in an oral interview following one of the previews.