Premiere: Edinburgh International Film Festival, June 2015
Awards:
"jury award: outstanding arthouse film" BLOW-UP INT ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL Chicago 2016,
"best experimental film" HONG KONG ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL,
"honorable mention" EXPERIMENTAL FILM FORUM 2016
„Major pelicula experimental international“ Films InFest 2017 Mallorca
„Experimental Feature Award“ 6th Inca Imperial International Film Festival Lima Peru 2021"
Festivals:
Edinburgh International Film festival, IndieCork 2015, FIFE Île de France, Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, Toronto Film Week, Venice Film Week, Baden-Württemberg Filmschau, Freiburger Filmfest, Norwich Radical Film Festival, Icaro Jazz Film Festival Copemhagen, Festival International de Cine Guatemala, Martinique Film Festival, Bifed Green Film Festival, Cineramabc Brazil, Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Festival Chicago, Films InFest 2017 Mallorca, Bridges International Film Festival, Experimental Superstars, Goddess on the Throne, Inca Imperial International Film Festival Lima Peru and others.
RUNNING TIME: 82 Minutes
FORMAT: 16:9 Black & White
SOUND: 5.1 Surround
KALEIDOSCOPE
By land, air and sea: an audio-visual travelogue in twenty-one chapters.
Tireless flaneur Telemach Wiesinger extends his repertoire of cinematic travelogues with another poetic collage of interconnected spaces and places gathered on numerous journeys across Europe and North America. Shot, as always, on 16mm, Wiesinger’s images have a singular feel that emerges from a confident mastery of materials and a precise sense of timing. The panoply of in-camera effects transforms he outside world into a wondrous and frequently otherworldly spectacle that hovers between realism and surrealism.
Forms of travel and sites of passing trough are a constant feature, as are the steel structures and moving bridges that frequently appear in Wiesinger’s oeuvre and allow him to weave complex formal arrangements within the frame. The filmmaker engages in a playful exchange with the spectator, creating anticipation and surprise in equal measure. This is brought about particularly through the musical soundscape , the result of a close collaboration with composer and audio engineer Alexander Grebtschenko. A varied combination of contemporary pieces of music – from Adrian Belew, Hayden Chisholm, Laurent de Wilde / Otisto 23, Andreas Gogol, Jojo Mayer, Gert-Jan Prins, Tobias Schwab and Gregory Taylor – rises and falls with a kaleidoscopic choreography of images.
Dr. Kim Knowles (curator Edinburgh International Film Festival & Professor University of Wales)
KALEIDOSCOPE
A film poem by Telemach Wiesinger
COMPOSITION:
Alexander Grebtschenko
MUSIC:
Adrian Belew
Hayden Chisholm
Laurent De Wilde/Otisto 23
Andreas Gogol
Alexander Grebtschenko
Jojo Mayer
Gert-Jan Prins
Tobias Schwab
Gregory Taylor
VOICE:
Gregory Taylor
CINEMATOGRAPHY, CAMERA, LETTERING, EDIT, PRODUCTION:
Telemach Wiesinger
PARTICIPATION:
Alexander Bügel
Félix Csajka
Markus Dörner
Andreas Gogol
Priscila Heimer Braz
Panos Kounadis
Jan-Hendrik Opdenhoff
Manuel Primoy
Ute Schöler
Ulrich Zaiser
Rolf Zilling
POST PRODUCTION:
Kinova, Madrid
16mm laboratory: Andec Film, Berlin
digitalization: Artus Film, Ludwigsburg
digital processing: media factory, Freiburg
SUPPORT:
MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg
DISTRIBUTION:
Light Cone, Paris & Lichtbild Wiesinger
THANKS:
Thorsten Fleisch, Barbara Müller Wiesinger, Tom Kaminski, Kim Knowles,
Dieter Krauss, Wolfgang Lehmann, Cornelius Schwehr
