Being and Nothingness

Das Sein und das Nichts

Austria, Luxembourg

2007

10 Min

Color

1.66:1

None

Currently 0.0/5 Stars.
1
2
3
4
5

|

PROD Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Bady Minck

This film transforms a piece of music into a visual and examines the role of humans in this performance of sound and light. After a prologue in which composer and conductor Beat Furrer is shown obtaining and arranging a score by Schumann, its performance is the film’s actual theme: As the notes pass through the picture, the musicians of the Klangforum Wien ensemble appear and disappear according to their acoustic contribution. The result is a choreography of sound, the music’s transience and vastness is turned into a ballet of bodies which, somewhere between presence and absence, commemorates the instability of being as a dialectic micro-spectacle. —Thomas Miessgang

Director

Bady Minck

Bady Minck (born 1960 Ettelbruck, Luxembourg) is a filmmaker, film producer and artist. She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and experimental film at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her work has been screened at international film festivals (e.g. Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Rotterdam, Locarno) and exhibited at museums like the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She is a founding member of the film production companies Amour Fou (Vienna) and Minotaurus Film (Luxembourg). She lives and works in Vienna and Luxembourg. In 2009, she is a member of the Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Jury. —Wikipedia