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Rainer Kohlberger: Answering the Sun + Q&A

Presented by Sonic Cinema, Bristol and London

  • From £6, £5 for 25 & Under

Geometric pattern, still from film © Rainer Kohlberger & Sixpackfilm

We are pleased to support Sonic Cinema's presentation of Rainer Kohlberger's Answering the Sun- a maximal, stroboscopic colour odyssey to the limits of human perception. Riffing on the optical phenomenon that occurs when staring at the sun, Kohlberger’s first feature adeptly modernises avant garde cinema’s long tradition of visual music and flicker in a 60-minute bombardment of coloured fields, Op art geometry, hallucinatory passages, and a wall of sound.

‘Rainer Kohlberger’s work speaks of seduction, an overstimulation and deception of the senses, monochrome-pumping color surfaces, powerful drones. Strong light signals create afterimages on the retina, while specific acoustic stimuli stimulate the ear to generate sounds on its own, and the entire body is affected with an implicit loss of control. And in all the dizzying flickering, throbbing, and pulsating, a sun appears, largely bathed in vibrant colors.’ - Regina Schlagnitweit.

 Answering the Sun, dir. Rainer Kohlberger, Austria/Germany, 2022, 60 min.

Please be advised that this film contains flashing and strobing images throughout.
 

 

With further support from the Austrian Cultural Forum London and Sixpackfilm, Vienna.
 

sonic cinema

Sonic Cinema is a research project and event series by Oliver Dickens, exploring the intersection of moving-image, sound art and music practice. It is dedicated to the memory of Louis Benassi.

 

Rainer KOHLBERGER

Rainer Kohlberger (1982, Austria) is a Berlin-based visual artist, designer and filmmaker. His work is primarily based on algorithmically generated graphics that are exposed in live performances, experimental films and installations. Kohlberger has won numerous awards including the ZKM App Art Award for artistic innovation in 2011 and the Crossing Europe Local Artist Award in 2013. He has exhibited and performed widely internationally including at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Vienna Filmmuseum, Berlin Atonal, Prismatic Ground (NY), Anthology Film Archives (NY), and Open City Documentary Festival (London).


 

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