{"identifier":"RA-Ingo_6312187798112","browse_author":"Ingo Petzke (Director) and Red Avocado Film (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350905719,"description":"Particularly in the \u201970s and early \u201980s, Ingo Petzke was a force to reckon with. This was mostly due to his effervescent, encompassing activities in the arena of experimental film: writing and teaching, starting art house cinemas and even festivals, sitting on juries and boards, running CINE PRO \u2013 Germany\u2019s only distribution company specialised in experimental film \u2013 and even funding cash prices for budding film makers. Last but not least he was a filmmaker in his own right. Though the films never broke quite as big, they were released in a steady, reliable stream, collecting some awards and federal funding. A closer look reveals their accurately following the trends of the time. Where Opus RUB was an exuberant mixture of student politics and naked skin much in the vein of the prevailing Underground Film, the Romance d\u2019Amour trilogy was just that \u2013 short pieces on first love. Once Upon a Time...? aims at translating Dylan\u2019s A Hard Rain\u2019s A-Gonna Fall into a contemporary German political context. Winterfarbe II and Atlantis are the last films accompanied by a soundtrack of popular music, even if they already breach into the field of more meditative sounds. Still, they take up the topic that would dominate the next years: travels, nature, impressions \u2013 more often than not of Northern landscape. These later works are less meditative than geared to then-dominant Structural Film with clear concepts, repetitive patterns and the use of zoom. Also, they are obviously influenced by Petzke\u2019s close friendship with Bastian Clevé, Werner Nekes and Dore O., the foremost German experimental filmmakers of the time. All these films from \u201975 till \u201980 greatly benefit from an original soundtrack composed and played by congenial musician Hendrik Schaper. Schaper and Petzke would sit down and have a close look at the\u2018script\u2019 which would exist on millimetre paper or would be any other graph. Schaper would then come up with his musical\u2018translation\u2019 of the concept, often inroads into Minimal Music. By the\u201880s, inspiration seems to have fizzled out. This may be because Petzke started a full-time professorial career. But it may well have been because in Germany the experimental movement in general started somewhat disappearing once their dominant figures were appointed professors mostly at arts academies. In all, the films on this compilation look like a true reflection \u2013 those were the days... Titles included (in running order): Once Upon a Time...? - 1972, 7 mins Winterfarbe II - 1973, 6 mins Atlantis - 1974, 9 mins aussariq - 1975, 17 mins Rastplatz - 1975, 5 mins Glimtar - 1975, 16 mins Asymptote - 1976, 11 mins Albedo 0.97 - 1977, 12 mins Astragal - 1978, 12 mins Jesper - 1980, 13 mins Hong Kong Topography: Näherungen - 1984, 12 mins \n And the full-length version of Hong Kong Topography which was conceptualised and produced as a diptyc \u2013 two filmmakers\u2019 view on Hong Kong shortly before the UK sold its former colony to China. Part 2 is:\n Hong Kong Topography: For Rent, Jim Shum - 1984, 9 mins","videoId":6312187798112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_filmmedia","title":"Northern Lights: Experimental Film Works","xml_source":"bvl_filmmedia_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"RA-Ingo","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/870c834d-4f20-4d33-a882-1154178d1da4/3d0f9b67-b6bc-4723-83da-167be077b9a2/1280x720/match/image.jpg","facets":"experimentalFilm , Experimental film , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema , nudity , Nudity , landAndTheLandscape , Land and the landscape , natureAndNaturalism , Nature and naturalism , anthropology , Anthropology , politicsAndPoliticalIdeologies , Politics and Political Ideologies , scienceTechnologyAndNature , Science, technology, and nature , _19701979 , 1970\u20131979 , _19801989 , 1980\u20131989 , _19001999 , 1900\u20131999 , made_20102019 , 2010\u20132019 , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , origin_germany , Germany , origin_europe , Europe , video , Video ,","contenttypeorder":3,"date_of_publication":2015,"publisher":"Red Avocado Film","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"RA-Ingo","facet":["_19001999","_19701979","_19801989","anthropology","experimentalFilm","filmAndCinema","landAndTheLandscape","made_2000Present","made_20102019","natureAndNaturalism","nudity","origin_europe","origin_germany","politicsAndPoliticalIdeologies","scienceTechnologyAndNature","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Ingo Petzke~Red Avocado Film"}