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kaschmir

kaschmir is a music video ...a performance clip, almost a dance choreography ... with an mechanical musician only.

  • Tom Blankenberg
    Director
  • Tom Blankenberg
    Producer
  • Tom Blankenberg
    Director of Photography
  • Max Hüttermann
    Colour Grading
  • Tom Blankenberg
    Soundmix
  • Tom Blankenberg
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 26, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    700 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 36 Girona Film Festival
    Girona
    Spain
    November 12, 2022
  • Valencia Indie Film Festival
    Valencia
    Spain
    January 21, 2022
    Spain Premiere
  • Garofano Rosso FIlm Festival
    Garofano
    Italy
    September 8, 2022
    Italy Premiere
  • INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL DETMOLD
    Detmold
    Germany
    July 2, 2022
    Germany Premiere
  • FilmArte Festival
    Madrid
    Spain
    May 6, 2023
    Jury Special Mention
  • International Music Video Awards
    Budapest
    Hungary
    Honorable Mention
  • 180´Berlin Filmfest
    Berlin
    Germany
    January 12, 2023
    Best Music Video
  • Tokyo International Short Film Festival
    Tokio
    Japan
  • Cellu l`art
    Jena
    Germany
    May 7, 2023
  • International Music Video Underground
    Paris
    France
    Best Special Stuff
Director Biography - Tom Blankenberg

About Tom Blankenberg
Tom Blankenberg was born 1970 in Düsseldorf/Germany, where he still lives and works.
In his childhood he took piano lessons, but is all in all a self-taught musician. And he made some early short film experiments on Super8.
After graduating from high school, he began to work in various audio recording studios in Düsseldorf and did also video editing.
He soon shifted his professional focus to audio direction and sound design for television, radio, advertising and cinema, documentaries in particular.
In the mid-90s he began to write music for film, radio, audio books and advertising.
Together with his brother Kai Blankenberg, he began running his own recording studio in 2009.
In 2013 he started working on his piano program and started again doing films and video clips for his music.
In 2019 his first solo album "atermus" was released, which received worldwide recognition
The second album "et" followed in April 2021.
For this album he shot 4 video clips so far.
"kaschmir" is one of them.

Blankenberg is currently working on a short film trilogy about his experience while the corona pandemic.

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Director Statement

I wanted to do a video for my forthcoming track "kaschmir".
But this year 2021 I was very much into this isolation mood.
And I could not shoot with a crew because of the covid restrictions.
So did a video clip myself , in an isolation surrounding.
I spent a few nights with 5 different upright pianos and a grand piano just to catch the beautiful wooden "clockwork" mechanics, the masterpieces of piano engineering.
The result is a video clip with no musician, no hands, no keyboard in it, but 100% piano. Almost a choreography.
And a big shout out not only to all piano players but also to the engineers, manufacturers, tuners, maintenance crews.
Thank you all.
Love
Tom"