Format Gava 1: L.A.

The first movie for the Format Gava project I did with Kim Janssen, a Dutch songwriter. All six video's were shown in 4 performances in combination with live visuals and a live band performing the music. We tried to set an atmosphere in which Kim's songs about his travels were accompanied by a visual interpretation. There was a catch though. I could only use filmmaterial from a database with old digitalised movies.

The video itself consists of a compilation of old 8mm, super 8 and 16mm footage shot in a period of 1944 till the 1980's all blended together into a new whole. All footage was shot by citizens from (and around) the city of Groningen, The Netherlands.

The music was composed by the very talented Kim Janssen and is performed by himself with his 'Major Cities band'. Since there are no studio recordings yet of these songs (except for Homesick), the music in the video's are rehearsel recordings, so my appologies for the bad quality.