Michael Vorfeld is not only a gifted improviser, percussionist and light bulb musician, but also a visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. Three of his films will be presented in the ImproVisions film series, paired with an artist talk moderated by Mathias Maschat.
Michael Vorfeld is active in the fields of experimental music, improvised music and sound art. He develops performances and installations with sound and light and works with photography and projection. His film work is also located in the field of experimental art and offers plenty of inspiration for exploring improvisational approaches to the medium of film.
LEUCHTSTOFF is a 16mm black and white film that approaches the elementary elements of light, shadow, movement and sound in a very unique way. At the same time, it is a play of concrete and dissolving forms in which various light sources unfold a suggestive poetic power through the protagonist – the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski – and the soundscape that is coordinated with the film.
The 16mm black-and-white film LICHTTON shows a dense sequence of animated image sequences created using light and projection as well as various images from the field of optics. Visual patterns, motion sequences and loops reflect the mechanical and optical processes underlying analogue film technology. The 16mm projector projecting the film is not, as is usually the case, acoustically separated from the audience in a separate room, but in the middle of the audience. Synchronised with the film projection, the mechanical sound of the film projector is amplified and manipulated live in all its diversity with the help of various microphones and pickups.
The interplay of light, sound, body and space in SILHOUETTE creates a film with surprising perceptual phenomena, full of atmospheric density and sensual intensity. Using various electric light sources, the performer is accompanied by an electro-acoustic soundtrack generated from the use of different light bulbs and electrical switching elements.
