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11.8.
opening / sundlichtspiele / 21.00
Alice 195 ¯ Augsburger Tafelconfect + Boris D. Hegenbart (D)
“Alice in Wonderland”, 42 min, Non Pareil Productions USA 1915 / based on the story by Lewis Carroll / directed by W. W. Young / leading actress: Viola Savoy [*1899 / †1987] / music: Augsburger Tafelconfect and Boris D. Hegenbart / Boris D. Hegenbart: computer, synthesizer / Sebastian Reier: prepared guitar, drum computer / Jyrgen Hall: keyboard, computer, bass / BaronnessA: voice
"Alice in Wonderland" from 1915 is the third film version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale. It is an outstanding silent movie that has lost nothing of its beauty and gripping atmosphere even after almost one century. The movie does not feature too many special effects for which there was neither budget nor enough technical achievements back in 1915. Instead, it focuses on wonderful exterior shots and extravagant, imaginative costumes. Of the original, extremely long version (around 60 minutes) only 42 minutes are available so far which nevertheless present the essence of the story of "Alice in Wonderland". The movie distinguishes itself from the rather kitschy movie versions that were created after 1930 by its clear depiction of events. In combination with the improvised live soundtrack of Augsburger Tafelconfect and Bors D. Hegenbart a dreamlike atmosphere is created in which the transition from the harmless counting-out rhyme to surrealistic nightmare rises seamlessly. A soundtrack was added of the first performance on the 17th of March 2005 to the 42-minute DVD version. Due to assistance by the German "Musikrat", a 60-minute original version could be acquired.
Boris D. Hegenbart *1969, of the institute for electro-acoustic music (ELAK), Wien and [Stipendiat] of the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. Several publications with his project (#/TAU), concerts, installations, music for theatre productions and for the radio play “Nachtspeicher” (WDR studio for acoustic art 2003) in collaboration with Felix Kubin. Remittance works for Ensemble Zeitkratzer as well as collaborations with the Karios Quartet, Christina Kubisch, Fred Frith, Sascha Demand, F. S. Blumm, Martin Siewert, Stephan Mathieu, Bernard Guenter and many ad-lib musicians.
Augsburger Tafelconfect *2002, is a Noise-Trio represented by Jyrgen Hall, BaronesseA and Sebastian Reier. Several concerts with audio-visual focus in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland as well as festival performances e.g. at the c/o pop festival Cologne, Club Transmediale Berlin, Ekkofest Bergen, garage festival Stralsund and Soundbridges Vienna. ATC are protagonists of the yearly world wide headphone festival Le Placard.
Werkstatt Bild + Ton is a movie presentation series at the cinema Metropolis, Hamburg. Gregory Büttner and Sebastian Reier present projects in the field of sound and moving pictures. Live soundtracks, largely sound dominated movies and movies which focus on music and its creation are the areas this series has dealt with on once a month since March 2005.
Alice 1915 s a co-production with the Kinemathek Hamburg e.V. and the Werkstatt Bild + Ton. Our special thanks goes to Rita Baukrowitz, Martin Aus and Gregory Büttner for their unresting commitment to the realisation of this project.