A video essay about «The Potential of Videography for Studying Audio-Visual Relationships» for Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft.
Special thanks to Péter Benjámin Lukács (sound designer of ON BODY AND SOUL) for invaluable insight into his process and confirming that the stag’s breathing was indeed of human origin.… continue
Both Johannes Binotto and Oswald Iten were giving panel talks at «Videography: Art and Academia», an international video essay symposium about «Epistemological, Political and Pedagogical Potentials of Audiovisual Practices», November 2-4, 2022, organized by Maike Sarah Reinert, Evelyn Kreutzer, Anna-Sophie Philippi, and Kathleen Loock.… continue
Within the framework of a series of lectures for the GIBZ (Gewerblich-industrielles Bildungszentrum Zug) in a local cinema, Oswald Iten presented videographic examples of how contemporary narrative feature films create tension on the soundtrack.… continue
Oswald Iten has been invited to talk about «Fear + Sound» at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen on November 23, 2021. As a presenter of film clips (both with original and experimentally de-familiarized soundtracks), he will moderate a discussion with the audience.… continue
As part of my research, I often swap soundtracks of similar scenes in order to see what this de-familiarization might reveal about the characteristics of the audiovisual relationship. These video notes* are usually just temporary tools of my process.… continue
As part of Ariel Avissar’s collaborative video essay project TV DICTIONARY, this bilingual entry seeks to sum up R.W.Fassbinder’s 15 hour adaptation of BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (1980) in one word. Definitions adapted from Merriam-Webster, Collins Dictionary and Duden.… continue
David Lean’s 1949 melodrama THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS has never gained the same popularity as its similarly themed predecessor BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945). But apart from a stellar performance by Claude Rains it has something that is practically inexistent in the earlier film: silence.… continue
Despite their obvious differences in story, theme and era, in my mind, Todd Haynes› [SAFE] and Nicolas Winding Refn’s THE NEON DEMON have somehow become tethered to each other. And I still do not know why, exactly.… continue
Audiovisual essay for the NECSUS issue Autumn 2020_#Method.
When it comes to Disney music, and The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967) in particular, most people think of character-defining songs like ‘The Bare Necessities’.… continue