Tuesday, 24. May 2022
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
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Musique Infinie (Noémi Büchi & Feldermelder) (Electronics)
Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko is the great visual poet of Soviet cinema. Urged by Stalin to make propaganda for agricultural collectivisation, he instead delivered a passionate hymn to nature. His film poem Earth (1930) brings to life the collective life experience of Ukrainian proletarians, examining the cycles of nature through its epic montage and exploring life, death, violence, sex and other themes related to the collective farms. The primacy is always beauty, or in Dovzhenko's own words, "If I have to choose between truth and beauty, I choose beauty. In it there is a greater, deeper existence than the naked truth. Existence is only that which is beautiful."
This third part of the "Ukrainian Trilogy" is set to music by the live electronic duo Musique Infinie with Noémi Büchi and Feldermelder, whose music is characterised by a delicate mixture of textural drones and fine, complex rhythms - both always in a continuous change, in a never-ending variation.
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