Trip - Remix Your Experience

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Movie
Original title Trip - Remix Your Experience
Country of production Germany
Publishing year 2006
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Frank Otto (director) / Stefanie Volkmer (artwork) / Frank Schweikert (seamusic) / Eliane Koller (playing planet) / Florian Giefer (track2) / Holger Mandel ( almond film)
script artwork: Frank Otto ; track 2: Peter Gölthenboth
production ferryhouse productions GmbH & Co KG
music Frank Otto / Bernt Koehler Adams
camera artwork: Kay Madsen, Maik Freudenberg, Andrew Tucker, Guido Möller, Kerstin Reich, Lukas Rüss, Eliane Koller, Bernt Köhler Adams; seamusic: Frank Schweikert, Frank Wenner, Stefanie Volkmer, Karin Ecker, Jan-Peter Sölter; playing planet: Ariane Bethusy-Huc; track 2: Volker Mai, Peter Gölthenboth, Florian Giefer, Gabriel Stolz u. v. a.
cut artwork: Stephan Schiffers, Christoph Pohl, Aram Coen; Klaus Flemming, Andrea Dettmer, Florian Giefer, Florian Giefer, Frank Schweikert, Stephan Schiffers; playin planet: Frank Mueller; track 2: Peter Göltenboth, Cornelia Cornelsen, Florian Giefer u. v. a.
occupation

Dragan Reiser, Alexandra von der Weeth in artwork; Amber Steele and many others in playing planet; Oona Devi Liebich u. v. a. in track 2

Trip - Remix Your Experience (also: TRIP - Remix Your Experience ) is a German total work of art by Frank Otto and Bernt Köhler-Adams from 2005. It was presented as a multimedia installation in December 2004 as part of the Havana Film Festival at the Instituto Superior de Arte for the world premiere. The world premiere as an experimental film took place in the official cultural program of the German pavilion in September 2005 at the world exhibition Expo 2005 in the prefecture of Aichi in Japan. A full performance was first performed in December 2005 in the Bergamot Station in California / USA.

Contents and actions

In all forms of representation of the psychedelic work, the recipient, as the last author, is challenged to create his own, individual story. The basis for the conceptual work on film and music is a 74-minute progressive rock piece of music. In English, the session formation The Element Project interprets various human relationships with the environment, nature and love. The spectrum of stylistic devices, from rock to jazz, blues, ethnic to avant-garde, determines the dramaturgy of four different films.

  • artwork is a painting performance on the floor in front of a wall of books from which video films emerge. It tells of a house painter who, while doing his boring job, sees the fresh paint as an ever-growing painting. He meets a mermaid who, following on from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, in human form and mute, can no longer leave her element. Her shyness excites him so much that he follows her and makes new attempts to win her over until he finally understands that he has to adapt to her and melt into the painting.
  • seamusic is a dive into unknown creatures of the underwater world. From macro shots of plankton to symbiotic relationships and a crab riding an alga rodeo in an underwater storm, to dynamic camera dives of hunting moray eels. Apart from "speed ups" to illustrate the motor skills of sea ​​cucumbers , all recordings are genuine nature documentaries.
  • Playing planet relates the different cultures from 15 countries to one another in documentary fictions. The woman living in a traditional Sudanese family who works in a scientific laboratory or the young American woman who separates herself from her war-waging homeland through provocative deviant behavior. The escape of an Indian couple for a love wedding or the fight for their own jurisdiction in Tahiti. Stories from Brazilian voodoo cult to Chinese dragon magic and from dynamite fishing to scuba diving as well as the joy of a meal and the kick of a parachute jump.
  • In track 2 , a young woman riding the subway discovers the thoughts and dreams of her fellow travelers in the tunnel walls. 30 episodes from 30 filmmakers in as many film styles. The spectrum includes animation film , collages, b / w silent film, photo film, art film, karaoke and video clips in stories about ceremonial earth birth, duels, love, lost toys, the discovery of the unknown, Barbie and Ken and much more.

The additional 8 video wall films from the book wall by “artwork” are a mimic portrait that also interprets the music, two computer animations, two VJ productions and documentary recordings from the painting performance to the musicians.

Forms of representation

  • The film version shows the four 4: 3 films in split screen , the video wall films are assigned on both sides, resulting in a 16: 9 screen format.
  • The multimedia installation includes at least 4 screen projections and, depending on the space, 8 or more plasma screens. Alternatively, the dome projection.
  • The performance complements one of the two aforementioned with live performances by the musicians from "The Element Project" and the dance by Amber Steele.
  • The total work of art shows the film version behind the main stage, which is played by drums, keyboard and main voice, and the four films in separate positions, which also allow stage appearances. The other screen installations and points of appearances in the audience specified by the lighting control can also extend over several themed rooms. The performance will also be expanded to include artistic appearances and a picture gallery, and the remaining senses will have the opportunity to enjoy food, beverages and (even in the USA) to smoke.
  • As a music film , the DVD is available in two versions. The double DVD contains the film version with multi-angle options at selected points on disc 1 and a 79-minute documentary on the project on disc 2, additional multi-angle bonus material from "Track 2", the cinema trailer and the video clip "Underway". In addition to these two DVDs, the “Complete Edition” contains two more discs with the four individual films and the permanent multi-angle option to switch to another film while the film is running without interrupting the music. Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 as well as Dolby Digital Stereo.

Performances

The premiere in Germany was described as a coup at the Filmfest Hamburg 2005. After the individual films were shown at various international film festivals, the full version also made its debut at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival in 2006 in front of an international film audience.

Beyond the film industry, there was a performance called the “Grand Finale” at the first global art and technology festival “Festival of the Fourth Dimension” in 2006 in Sophia Antipoles. The German cinema premiere was followed by a 15-city cinema tour with live performance (August 18 to September 18, 2006) at the start of the film.

For the first time in television history, on June 2, 2007, the synchronous parallel broadcast of a film in four variations on 4 TV channels took place simultaneously ( 3sat , Theaterkanal, ZDFinfo and ZDFdokukanal). Since July 2007 Trip has been part of the program of the Hamburg Planetarium as a dome projection .

After 5 shows in New York, including in the Bronx Museum, the DVD was also released in the USA.

Reviews

The movie was discussed very controversially from different perspectives at the start of the film:

  • Cinema (09/2006) draws the conclusion with “thumbs up”: “Eye food for thought strangers - you look there, sometimes there or just listen to the cool music. It used to be called a stoner film ”.
  • Der Spiegel (07/08/2006), however, focuses on one of the video wall films: "In addition to some surprisingly impressive chance encounters between image and sound, recordings of an ecstatic Otto making music seem like documents of a private pleasure that should never have been made public".
  • Prinz (09/2006) states: "This is certainly not for everyone, but a wonderfully unorthodox pleasure for imaginative friends of progressive rock".
  • Die Welt am Sonntag (06/08/2006) headlines “Confusing abundance of impressions” and Rolling Stone (09/2006 ) headlines : “Really psychedelic”.
  • Max (09/2006) judges: “In any case, a frenzy of images and sound that takes the viewer from Haiti to the Berlin subway. Enormous".
  • The ARD Tagesschau sums up the planetarium premiere on July 26, 2007: “The result is a trip that is intoxicating even without drugs”.

Awards

  • Angel of Los Angeles, u. a. Silver Lake Film Festival
  • Spirit Award of the Brooklyn International Film Festival for Playing Planet (www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/winners/2005.asp)
  • Finalist at DomeFest Chicago 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trip - Remix Your Experience