Lightwaves Soundwaves
This video's poem is a collection of wholesome ideas inscribed on the video images of original handmade abstract artworks, both by Dwayne Jahn. The soundtrack was specifically created for it by Oxford Improviser Lawrence Casserley with water sounds, rainsticks and his signal processor instrument
THE FIRST LAUDATION to Dwayne Jahn and Ebba Jahn:
Lightwaves, Soundwaves was selected as the winning film in the category of Collaboration by Hali Autumn for Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022!
Here is the juror's statement:
It’s my interest in abstract conceptions and the mediums chosen to collaborate for this film that struck me, they have ambivalent qualities. The mediums are not out of reach, not too professional, or inaccessible, they are contemporary. A juxtaposition of painter, poet, and sound artistry creates an elemental, triptych trifecta.
The foreground features words, trance-like, playing to the ordinance of our mind’s eye.
The background is liminal, shape shifting, loud in color covered by foreboding moisture. Rain drops melt the colors, bonding with the water-based paint only to, slowly, erase the lines and form new shapes. At times, the illusion is that there is the possibility of a barrier, between the rain, the paintings and the words.
There is more going on in this film than it presents at first viewing. “Transcending cause and effect”. The words distract like a disillusionment to the painting: words in the foreground, painting in the background and sometimes the other way around. The sonic ripples harmonizing with the hypnotic ripples faintly overlaying the loud colors collaborating with the words; close ups of what could be influenced or had reminded me of a visit with Kandinsky. The psychedelic future is in this film, pushing sensorial limits, a cinematic synesthesia with its purpose seemingly not to eliminate the sense of senses but combine them into a dreamlike harmony.
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Dwayne JahnDirector
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Dwayne JahnWriter
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Ebba JahnProducer
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Lawrence CasserleyKey Cast
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Project Type:Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other
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Runtime:3 minutes 3 seconds
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Completion Date:January 3, 2022
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Country of Origin:Germany
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Kino Klub SplitSplit
Croatia
March 30, 2023
Finalist for Screening 2023 -
3rd Kerala Short Film FestivalKochi, Kerala
Official Selection -
3rd Alibag Film Festival 2023Kolkata
India
Nomination Best Experimental Film -
MoPOP Martinee Takeover – Cadence Video Poetry Winner's ShowcaseSeattle
United States
November 1, 2022
daily until Feb 1,2023
Festival Winners 3 months at Museum of Popular Culture -
Nature and Culture Film Festival - Det Poetiske PhonotekCopenhagen
Denmark
November 20, 2022
Denmark
Official Selection in Phonotek -
Korea Intl. Short Film FestivalSeoul
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
August 3, 2022
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Finalist | Best Sound Design -
10th International Video Poetry Festival AthensAthens
Greece
September 30, 2022
Greece Premiere
Official Selection -
Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022Seattle, WA
United States
April 21, 2022
USA Premiere
AWARD WINNER - Collaboration -
ISFFA INDIAN INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL AWARDSKolkata
India
April 24, 2022
Jury Mention Best Foreign Experimental Film -
Lacuna Festivals for Contemporary Art _Clash 2022Canary Islands
Spain
July 1, 2022
Spanish Premiere
Official Selection -
WCC Sphere World Cinema CarnivalKolkata
India
January 28, 2022
Indian Premiere
Official Selection
Distribution Information
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Ebba JahnRights: All Rights
Dwayne Charlou Jahn studied visual art & vocal music at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City; afterwards, he studied at the Liberal Arts College Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY until 2006. Since 2008 he lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His poems are inscribed onto these art video collaborations since 2021:
CELESTIAL PARTICULAR 3:13, 2021
PRIMORDIAL ENCHANTMENTS 4:13, 2021
LIGHTWAVES SOUNDWAVES 3:03, 2022 (see Screenings/Awards above)
NO INVASION 3:23, 2023
PHASES-MALASPINA 5:00, 2023