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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.

  • Dwayne Jahn
    Director
  • Dwayne Jahn
    Writer
  • Ebba Jahn
    Producer
  • Lawrence Casserley
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 3 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 3, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Kino Klub Split
    Split
    Croatia
    March 30, 2023
    Finalist for Screening 2023
  • 3rd Kerala Short Film Festival
    Kochi, Kerala
    Official Selection
  • 3rd Alibag Film Festival 2023
    Kolkata
    India
    Nomination Best Experimental Film
  • MoPOP Martinee Takeover – Cadence Video Poetry Winner's Showcase
    Seattle
    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 Phonotek
    Copenhagen
    Denmark
    November 20, 2022
    Denmark
    Official Selection in Phonotek
  • Korea Intl. Short Film Festival
    Seoul
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    August 3, 2022
    Looks like they don't show selected films
    Finalist | Best Sound Design
  • 10th International Video Poetry Festival Athens
    Athens
    Greece
    September 30, 2022
    Greece Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022
    Seattle, WA
    United States
    April 21, 2022
    USA Premiere
    AWARD WINNER - Collaboration
  • ISFFA INDIAN INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
    Kolkata
    India
    April 24, 2022
    Jury Mention Best Foreign Experimental Film
  • Lacuna Festivals for Contemporary Art _Clash 2022
    Canary Islands
    Spain
    July 1, 2022
    Spanish Premiere
    Official Selection
  • WCC Sphere World Cinema Carnival
    Kolkata
    India
    January 28, 2022
    Indian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 45. Duisburger Akzente
    Duisburg Ruhrort
    Germany
    March 2-24 in Exhibition at Das PLUS am Neumarkt 19
Distribution Information
  • Ebba Jahn
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Dwayne Jahn

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
RANGE OF VIEW 6:54, 2024

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