DER WALD
Opening of MaerzMusik 2021
// an experimental film by Timo Kreuser & Luka Umek
(2022, 70min)
produced by PHØNIX16
Premiere at Kino Wolf - Weserstr. 59, 12045 Berlin
Tuesday, 05.07.2022
DER WALD, the German forest, is a cinematic and musical questioning of German Romanticism and its receptive coincidence of sentimentality and the madness of annihilation, or simply, „eine erinnerungsmusikalische Wende um 180Grad“.
“Wenn der braune Eichensaft aus dem Biedermeierrahmen tropft!”
with
PHØNIX16
Veronika Böhle, Christoph Brunner, Anna Bineta Diouf, Susanne Fischer-Müncheberg, Sara Gouzy, Rory Green, Lawrence Halksworth, Oskar Koziolek, Will Kwiatkowski, Jason Lee, Douglas Nasrawi, Anna Smith, Hitoshi Tamada, Michael Taylor, CarrieAnne Winter, Eva Zwedberg – singers
Timo Kreuser – artistic direction
Sonya Levin - actress
music
Martin Schüttler
Diskreter Wolf 0.99
for 8 voices and electronics
Martin Schüttler
Meuten
for 12 voices and electronics
Mathias Monrad Møller
Motiv vom Brocken
for 8 male voices and tape
Gustav Mahler
Die zwei blauen Augen
for 16 voices
Richard Strauss
Der Abend
for 16 voices
Mathias Monrad Møller
Blondi
for 8 female voices, dog clicks and tape
Gustav Mahler
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
for 16 voices
realisation, concept and direction
Timo Kreuser
camera
Luka Umek
editing, animations
Komposter.si
sound recording
Carlo Grippa, Johannes Gottschick
mix
Peter Weinsheimer und Timo Kreuser
production
PHØNIX16
production manager
Sonia Lescène
production assistant
Yannis Karalis
recorded at
Silent Green Kulturquartier
April 2021
supported by
Hauptstadtkulturfonds
and
Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
thanks
Malgorzata Walentynowicz and Sebastian Berweck, Initiative Neue Musik e.V., Rundfunkchor Berlin andthe team of Silent Green
in memory of
Hitoshi Tamada