REALTIME

REALTIME

color, sound, 5 min
"All that film is can be reduced to two elements: light and (proportionately structured) movement. And there are many possible answers to the question of what light and proportionate movement are. ...
Rental format: 35mm

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"All that film is can be reduced to two elements: light and (proportionately structured) movement. And there are many possible answers to the question of what light and proportionate movement are. In Realtime, Siegfried Fruhauf has decided on the most simple one, summing it up in the most symbolically unequivocal and, literally, most illuminating way: the sun. The light of the sun is the only type of lighting used to illuminate the movie screen in Realtime. And the sunrise, filmed in realtime, is the only discernible motion - which makes us realize that all motion, in film and in the cosmos, is temporal. Everything else about film is negotiable, such as the fuzzy area between (justified) expectation and (actual) fulfillment, which is known as suspense. After the moving electric arc on the screen has been revealed to be a heavenly body, we have every reason to believe that it will continue its forward motion in an absolutely constant orbit. At the same time, we eagerly ask at which point (and/or through which points) the filmmaker will remove his gaze from it. Or the soundtrack, which also represents an arbitrary matter, and which is called music in the most arbitrary of cases. The irreversible movement of Fruhauf's protagonist is accompanied by the groove of a playfully altered pop song - the absolute meter is subordinated to a moment of subjective duration. Realtime returns the possibilities available to film to their absolute zero - and provides a clever hint at what can be reimagined proceeding from this point (and on to eternity)." -Robert Buchschwenter (Translation: Steve Wilder)

"I shot REALTIME on a Sony Hi8 Videocamcorder. This Camera creates a nice structure in the picture, when you have extreme light situations. I filmed the sun with a black welding glass in front of the lens to create the effect with the black sky and the green, yellow sun. I was fascinated to get the real essence of cinema with a camera that was made for home users, to make private videos and watch them on a TV monitor. All that cinema is, is in this simple but powerful film - light and time. The sun gives us these two parameters within the change of day and night. And in the film, it is not the movement of the sun that you can see - it is the rotation of the earth that becomes visible. I used the earth as a trolley to create a phantom ride through the universe. And to bring the essence of the biggest cinema, the universe, back to the screen, it was necessary to make a transfer on film. I decided to use 35mm because it is the genuine cinema format." -S.F.

Programs

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    Origins and Ends

    A program of 35mm films

    Combining origin stories with elegies and alternative histories, as well as explorations of desire, scraps, emergence, and obsolescence, “Origins and Ends” presents an array of experiments with cinema’s standard gauge, the use of which is decidedly rare in avant-garde film.

Films

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    La Sortie Des Ourvriers De L'Usine
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    La Sortie Des Ourvriers De L'Usine
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    black and white, sound, 6 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    Mountain Trip (Hoehenrausch)
    Experimental

    Mountain Trip (Hoehenrausch)
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    black and white, sound, 4 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    Blow-Up
    Experimental

    Blow-Up
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    black and white, sound, 1 min
    Rental format: 35mm
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    Exposed
    Experimental

    Exposed
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    black and white, sound, 9 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    Mirror Mechanic
    Experimental

    Mirror Mechanic
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    35mm, black and white, sound, 7 min
    Rental format: 35mm
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    Night Sweat
    Experimental

    Night Sweat
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    color, sound, 9 min
    Rental format: 35mm
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    Tranquility
    Experimental

    Tranquility
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    digital, color, stereo, 7 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Films About Film
    • Structural
    • Found Footage
    • Hand-Processed
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    Exterior Extended
    Experimental

    Exterior Extended
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    digital, black and white, sound, 9 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
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    • Structural
    • Found Footage
    • Hand-Processed
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    Still Dissolution
    Experimental

    Still Dissolution
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    digital, color, sound, 3 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Films About Film
    • Structural
    • Found Footage
    • Hand-Processed
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    Vintage Print
    Experimental

    Vintage Print
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    digital, color, sound, 13 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
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    • Structural
    • Found Footage
    • Hand-Processed
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    Fuddy Duddy
    Experimental

    Fuddy Duddy
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    digital, black and white, sound, 5 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Films About Film
    • Structural
    • Found Footage
    • Hand-Processed
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    Heavy Eyes Remastered
    Experimental

    Heavy Eyes Remastered
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    color, sound, 10 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Films About Film
    • Structural
    • Found Footage
    • Hand-Processed
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    Phantom Ride Phantom
    Experimental

    Phantom Ride Phantom
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    digital, color and b/w, sound, 10 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Films About Film
    • Structural
    • Found Footage
    • Hand-Processed
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    Water and Clearing
    Experimental

    Water and Clearing
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    digital, color, sound, 5 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Films About Film
    • Structural
    • Found Footage
    • Hand-Processed
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    Thorax
    Experimental

    Thorax
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    digital, color, sound, 8 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Films About Film
    • Structural
    • Found Footage
    • Hand-Processed
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    Dissolution Prologue (Extended Version)

    Dissolution Prologue (Extended Version)
    Siegfried A. Fruhauf

    digital, color, sound
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    • Structural
    • Hand-Processed