Click-click, tick-tick

Music video to Ella Milch-Sheriff’s composition "Click-click, tick-tick" for mezzo-soprano and piano after a poem by Sylvia Plath.

Time is running, thoughts are racing, life is running out: is the protagonist in Sylvia Plath's poem standing still or is she fighting against it? Her loneliness and desperation become palpable, but also the strength with which she fights against it.

With Uta Christina Georg | mezzo-soprano.

  • Martina Pfaff
    Director
  • Sylvia Plath
    Writer
  • Martina Pfaff
    Producer
  • Uta Christina Georg
    Producer
  • Uta Christina Georg
    Key Cast
  • Nele Jeromin
    Editing
  • Emanuel Hoisl
    Sound Engineer
  • Govert van Eeden
    Camera
  • Ella Milch-Sheriff
    Composer
  • Koji Ishizaka
    Piano
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 10, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Martina Pfaff

Martina Pfaff studied musicology and ethnology in Freiburg, Paris and Hamburg, followed by some years as director at Cologne Opera. She also worked for several opera productions nationally and internationally. Since 2004 she contributed to a series of film documentaries and dance films produced for the public broadcasting stations WDR, BR, and ARTE. She directed documentaries about Grammy Award winner Toumani Diabaté, about a new music scene in Cologne, or about young people spending their time with classical music. Recently she directed concert films and music videos.

Toumani Diabaté – Koraklänge aus dem Land der Flusspferde (2007), music documentary
global local – Forays into a new music scene in Cologne (2011), music documentary
Kein Kinderspiel – Warum sich Jugendliche für Klassik begeistern“ (2014), music documentary
Ävver singe kann se nit (2014), music video
Deck the Hall (2018), music video
Friede auf Erden (2019), music video
Nozani (2020), music video

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