Director: Wolfgang Lehmann
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Biography: Wolfgang Lehmann was born in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany in 1967.
Active in the film club there, Wolfgang Lehmann wrote film critiques and began working for the municipal cinema Freiburg, a post he held till until 2005. As member of the municipal cinema Freiburg, he developed and organised several retrospectives and programmes. He focused on presenting works of the film- and video avant-garde from its beginnings until today.
His main contributions have been to unearth little known or forgotten films, as well as explore areas such as “expanded cinema” and multi media works.Wolfgang Lehmann has also displayed interest in the notion of live film performance in terms of a type of staged activity.
Concluding his work in Freiburg was the organisation of the Festival Film Forum Freiburg: Expanded Cinema & avant-garde in 2004. His first cinematic efforts were made in 1989. Since 1994 Wolfgang Lehmann has realised and produced his own films, many of which were invited for showings at festivals and museums in Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Canada, USA and South America.
Since the beginning of his artistic activity, he has not only been fascinated by film, but music as well. The ECLAT Festival commission, Meer (Sea) (2004), conceived with Telemach Wiesinger as well as with composer Misato Mochizuki, was a further development toward the connection of image and sound.
His works can be characterised by an exact and often rhythmic-like montage, as well as extremely short takes that result in overlapping images. After living for a brief period in Berlin, Wolfgang Lehmann has resided in Rümpel (Schleswig-Holstein / Germany) and Stockholm (Sweden) with his wife and his son since 2006.
Director: Telemach Wiesinger
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Biography: Telemach Wiesinger, born 1968 in Bielefeld / Germany.
Studies: Visual Communication at Hochschule Bildender Künste
Universität Kassel. As photographer he is working for many art books and
Solo-exhibitions: Contemporary Art Center Athens, Centre d’Art contemporain Nîmes, Kunstpalast Lemberg, Takashimaya Matsuyama, Photographic Society Lesvos, Skovegaard Museet Viborg, Smokebrush Gallery Colorado Springs, Museum für Moderne Kunst Rupertinum Salzburg, Eté Photographique de Lectoure.
Selection of 16mm Films:
TRANSFORMATION (2017), Music Alexander Grebtschenko, 12 Min
KALEIDOSCOPE (2015), Music: A. Grebtschenko & more, 82 Min
PATENT No. DE 1037274 B (2015/1992), Sound: A. Gogol, 13 Min
”10” (2013), Music: Cornelius Schwehr, 65 Min
EUROPA (2012), Sound: Andreas Gogol, 20 Min
MOTOR (2011), Sound: Andreas Gogol, 20 Min
DIE ANKUNFT EINES ZUGES (2011), Sound: Andreas Gogol, 3 Min
PASSAGE…S (2008), silent, 30 Min
PASSAGE (2008), Sound: Tobias Schwab, 30 Min
3x1 (2007), Sound: Tobias Schwab, 10 Min
LANDED RE-EDITION (2007), 35 Min
DER KLANG DES MEERES with Wolfgang Lehmann(2004), silent, 15Min
MEER with Wolfgang Lehmann(2004), Music: M. Mochizuki, 15Min
Country: Germany
Year: 2005
Synopsis: The source of inspiration for Wolfgang Lehmann's silent film poem about the sea DER KLANG DES MEERES (The Sound of the Sea), which was created in collaboration with Telemach Wiesinger, were the "soul images" described by Herman Melville in his novel Moby Dick: Let an absent-minded person sink into deep dreams...and without fail he will lead you to water...yes, everyone knows that meditation and water are intimately bound to each other!"
In clear black and white images that are made strongly rhythmic by the editing, a visual composition of intense musicality unfolds in the quiet of DER KLANG DES MEERES, a composition that compresses into an imaginary trip into a landscape of waves on the Atlantic Coast.
DER KLANG DES MEERES is silent. The film is the "twin" to the music film MEER with a composition by Misato Mochizuki.
