SonarCinema 2011
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Fight for Your Right Revisited

Director: Adam Yauch
Lengthn: 30 minutes
To celebrate in style the release of their latest album, "Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2", Beastie Boys have revisited their legendary video for "Fight for Your Right to Party" with a top quality short film. The movie, directed by Adam Yauch (aka MCA) includes an impressive list of cameos from Hollywood personalities: actors including Elijah Wood, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell, Susan Sarandon, Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones, Stanley Tucci, Will Arnett, Ted Danson and Steve Buscemi, recreate and expand upon the scenes of the original video in a hilarious short film full of breakdancing, time travel and 100% Beastie Boys sense of humor. Kick it!

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Director: Marie Losier
Length: 72 minutes
Pre-opening in collaboration with Beefeater In-Edit, Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Musical de Barcelona.

This award-winning documentary by the New York-based French filmmaker Marie Losier is an intimate portrait of the legendary musician, performer and father of industrial music Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his collaborator and life partner for fifteen years, Jacqueline Breyer (better known as Lady Jaye). The film looks at his career and an ambitious project called "Creating the Pandrogyne", in which Genesis decided to undergo a series of operations in order to literally become an image of his lover. It is a passionate declaration of principles that challenges the limits of biology to defy taboos and concepts of gender and artistic expression. A story of love and devotion taken to extremes.


SYGNOK and the War for Radical Computer Music

Directors: Saul Albert, Nathaniel Robin Mann
Length: 25 minutes
Kristian Vester, alias Goodiepal, Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen is now operating under the moniker SYGNOK after teaming up with DJ HVAD and VJ Cancer. In the aftermath of the war against the Danish Royal Academy of Music, SYGNOK currently works in areas that are closer to musical philosophy than to music in its strictest sense, this documentary faces the difficult task of capturing the essence of the RCM and traces how the goals of creating music for 'artificial & alternative intelligences' has now diverged into a tangled web of race wars, theft, forgery & death threats.  


We Don't Care about Music Anyway

Directors: Cédric Dupire, Gaspard Kuentz
Length: 80 minutes
In this film, Cédric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz outline the many facets of Tokyo's fertile cutting edge scene. It includes the radical turntablism of Otomo Yoshihide, the compositions for guitar by Takehisa Ken, the electronic innovation of Numb, the vocal improvisations of Fuyuki Yamakawa and the daring reinterpretation of the cello by Sakamoto Hiromichi, among others. It is a kaleidoscopic vision of the Japanese capital juxtaposing music and noise, sound and images, reality and representation, documentary and fiction. "We Don't Care about Music Anyway" is a cathartic journey to the frantic heart of the city, which highlights the social and cultural background of a generation of artists who decided to turn their backs on tradition and correctness some years ago, in order to give free rein to new musical languages.

Colour Projections

Director: Theo Burt
Length: 30 minutes
With a sparseness of language that is difficult to surpass, the British audiovisual artist Theo Burt uses "Colour Projections" to present an almost natural connection between simple sound waves and geometric forms: circles, triangles and perfectly defined squares with plain colours. Using a progression of relatively basic geometric systems, Burt establishes the parameters of an imaginary world in which the intersections and combinations of various elements are heard as well as seen. Despite the extremely sparing nature of each scene, it is practically impossible not to give the individual forms an identity, and to think of each landscape as a vignette full of narrative, drama and ambiguity.


Resonance

Directors: various artists
Length: 10 minutes
"Resonance" is an unprecedented collaborative project between twenty highly regarded 3D animators and eleven sound designers from around the world. It presents an energetic connection of short audiovisual pieces lasting between 12 and 20 seconds, which explore the various angles of the relationship between geometric forms and sound. These figures twist, grow and evolve to the sound of unconventional micro-soundtracks, in an immersive experience full of dynamic abstraction.

With animations by: SR Partners, Kultnation, KORB, Onur Senturk, Renascent, Murat Pak, Heerko Groefsema, Jr Canest, Esteban Diacono, Ian Clemmer, Matthias Muller, Mate Steinforth, Tom Waterhouse, Physalia Studio, Displace Studio, Tronic Studio, Thiago Maia, Polynoid, MRK, JP Frenay. Sound design: Radium Audio, Echolab, David Kamp, Combustion, Studio Takt, Jochen, Michael Fakesch, Hecq, Cypheraudio, Mutant Jukebox and Darren Wiener.


PressPausePlay

Directors: David Dworsky, Victor Köhler
Length: 80 minutes
The creative landscape is changing. Some talk about a revolution. Others talk about a natural evolution. These changes affect everything. From creation to distribution, from artist to consumer. The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by 'PressPausePlay', a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era (from Moby to Sean Parker, to Hot Chip or Bill Drummond amongst many others).