Flimmerkonzerte #9

BRUEDER SELKE
FLIMMERKONZERTE #9
DZIGA VERTOV
„The Man With The Camera“
Sep 18, 2021
Filmmuseum Potsdam

Since January 2018, Filmmuseum Potsdam presents FLIMMERKONZERTE, dedicated to all open-minded film and music lovers. The boutique series of film concerts is carefully curated and organized by the Brueder Selke, brothers Sebastian and Daniel Selke, also known as the award-winning cello-piano duo CEEYS, founders of Q3Ambientfest.

In the nineth edition, the curators of the series accompany live the silent film The Man With The Camera by Dziga Vertov (DE 1926).

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Film:
"Vertov's experimental work attempts to create an international, absolute language of cinema, based on complete independence from the language of theater and literature".
Even the opening credits make it clear that at the end of a decade marked by upheavals, the revolution in cinema is still missing. Renouncing common silent film elements and using cross-fades, split screens and animation, the avant-gardist Vertov condenses footage shot over a period of three years in Kiev, Odessa and Moscow into a fast-paced description of life in the big city. The camera always remains visible, becoming the center of the action. The viewer races through streets and squares, accompanies the inhabitants to the factories, to their apartments and - of course - to the movies.

The music by the brothers performing under the moniker CEEYS – VIOLONCELLE (fr. cello) and KEYS – adopts a minimalistic approach of composition and improvisation. It moves between avant-garde and pop, including elements of jazz, ambient and classical chamber music:

»Raised during the last decade of the former GDR, our releases focus on processing memories, impressions and feelings regarding these rather hybrid times.«

In combination with a love-poem by Rainer Maria Rilke the music and visualization of their album CONCRETE FIELDS has won the Special Award at the International Poetry Film Festival Vienna. 2017 also marked the first annual Q3Ambientfest, which links avant-garde and pop to Potsdam’s versatile historical architecture:

»In accompanying these carefully selected films, we on the one hand hope to reinforce the close bond to our new home Potsdam – with its fascinating history and architecture from neoclassicism to the prefab buildings structures of the GDR. On the other hand, we seek to share our other great passion besides music – our love for film – with both dear friends and like-minded guests.

Much love and
pleasant times at FLIMMERKONZERTE!«
Sebastian & Daniel Selke

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Admission: 10 euros, reduced 8 euros
Drinks available at the foyer.