SLS

“SLS” is juxtaposing two seemingly unrelated components. Obviously a kaleidoscope it folds up the visual experience of a 3-day urban festival for public sound-and-light interventions in the Austrian city of Graz ( https://www.klanglicht.at). The soundtrack is the song “Dicey Disco Dash”, stripped of the lyrics plus an intro that features original sounds from the streets of Graz. The idea of this work is a shifted perception of an actual moment in space and time. The city was real, the people were real, the lights were real and now they are something different. On the one hand an actual echo of the recent past, on the other hand, a completely different awareness of the audio-visual moment that can get repeated over and over again at various locations and times. The moving and engaging soundtrack provided the grid over which the changing forms and shapes immerse the viewers. A kaleidoscope works best when you turn it, so my film is also constantly turning and mixing up the digitally manipulated fragments. Based on slow walks through a concrete location, the sound & light shuffle of my work earned its fitting title: SLS - literally Sound-Light-Shuffle.

  • Holger Lang
    Director
  • Holger Lang
    Writer
  • Holger Lang
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    1,234 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Holger Lang
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Holger Lang

Holger Lang is an Austrian artist and filmmaker, living and working in Vienna. His artistic focus reaches from abstract and conceptual work to experimental and interdisciplinary projects. Traveling extensively he has been invited to numerous lectures, presentations, conferences and festivals in Europe, the US and Asia.
For over 20 years he's been teaching animation, media arts and aesthetics for an American university at one of their satellite locations in Austria and also their main campus in St.Louis. Holger Lang is organising academic symposia in Vienna and Zagreb and he is curating programs of European and Austrian animation and experimental films for various venues. In addition he is managing and curating an independent gallery in Vienna and for several years he is one of the board members of ASIFA AUSTRIA where he is supporting, promoting and distributing contemporary Austrian animation.
His own artistic output in film, experimental animation and fine arts has been shown in solo and group screenings and exhibitions for more than 25 years. Originally born in Germany he grew up in rural Austria, spent several years in the US and UK and – for now – settled in Vienna.

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Director Statement

My artistic expression is spreading out in many fields, media and areas. Ideally, it should be enough to view my work and experience what I put into it. Ideally, I would prefer to let it stay self-contained, including sound and images. The rest should up to individual interpretation. But hey - I also read the descriptions of other people work ...