restlicht

„Restlicht“ is about contemporary, experimental silent films with a live soundtrack on the edge of visibility, exploring the limits of cameras and our perception. Night vision cameras, night shots, backlit shots and trail cams provide the material, which tells a story in several layers.

restlicht is narrative without a certain plot. restlicht works with the power of cinematic means and with an associative and mystical degree of abstraction, which opens up space for the viewer’s imagination and individual poetry.

  • Anja Kreysing
    Director
  • Anja Kreysing
    Writer
  • Anja Kreysing
    Producer
  • Anja Kreysing
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    restlicht
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 10, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    70 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • „SLOW LIGHT – SEEKING DARKNESS“ Klangzeit-Festival
    Hrelji / Zmnj
    Croatia
    June 25, 2022
  • Lab30 Medienkunst-Festival
    Augsburg
    Germany
    October 28, 2023
  • Mopomoso TV
    online
    United Kingdom
    March 19, 2023
  • Liveperformersmeeting 2023 / avnode.net
    Münster
    Germany
    April 16, 2023
Distribution Information
  • Anja Kreysing
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Anja Kreysing

Anja Kreysing, master of fine arts, sound- and media arts / experimental film, studied with Lutz Mommartz (German fluxus experimental filmer), additional studies with Nan Hoover, Christina Kubisch. Accordionist, improviser (workshops with Malcolm Goldstein et al, certified Deep listening practitioner after Pauline Oliveros). Primarely work with Live Soundtracks for (silent-)film, video, performance, theater…) and for her own videoart / experimental films with accordion / electronics. Curator of „schwarz-weiss ist die bessere farbe“, label for (silent-)film concerts and a/v performances with Helmut Buntjer.
www.anjakreysing.de

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Director Statement

"restlicht" works as a experimental music video as here submitted and also as a 10-30 min. version (several variations exist) as a contemporary silent film with live soundtrack. This is played with accordion and electronics in the sense of a cinema organ 2.0: a powerful wall of sounds, in the field of atonality, pure sound experience and fragments of melodies and harmonies. My artistic focus is on the interaction of moving images and (live)sound.