ACHT BRÜCKEN: Thomas Sauerborn | Man with a Movie Camera

In the 95 years since its release, Dsiga Wertow's "Man with a Movie Camera" has lost none of its significance: As an experiment in a universal cinematic language, the silent film, which manages entirely without intertitles, has already received various musical interpretations. The film, whose structure - as if according to musical parameters - finds its rhythm, literally sucks viewers into life in Kiev, Kharkiv and Odessa in 1929. This pull is intensified by the composition of Thomas Sauerborn, inspired by the symbiosis of film and camera techniques on the one hand and the realism of the images on the other.

Sauerborn, together with two companions from the formation "Das Ende Der Liebe", brings two female trombonists into this ensemble and thus opens up the space between the breathing wind instruments, the manipulated sounds of the Nintendo Gameboy and live sampling. Together they bring the everyday life and rhythm of 1929 into the present day - juxtaposing it with the life and sounds of the 21st century.

This concert is organized in cooperation with ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln, the European Center for Jazz and Contemporary Music Stadtgarten Köln and NICA artist development.