CINESTHESIA

Since 2006 AUXXX has been presenting mixed media programmes at various venues in Berlin and Amsterdam. AUXXX specialises in combining artists and their audiences in a special way, tapping into creative undercurrents and opening up new channels. Between September 2017 and June 2019 AUXXX organised a special series of film and music events together with Dr Claus Löser at Brotfabrik Kino in Berlin. Various approaches to composing for and playing to film were showcased - we tried to avoid the typical format of “improvised soundtrack to a silent movie” and instead challenged musicians to compose and perform on an equal footing with the films, sometimes using the original soundtracks as source material, other times playing a concert along with and in parallel to the film on screen.

CINESTHESIA SCREEN CONCERTS 001 - 012 / 2017 - 2019

BROTFRABIK KINO
Caligariplatz 1 - 13086 Berlin



*** THANXXX ***
to everyone involved for making this series happen:
artists, audience and staff at Brotfabrik
+ Musikfonds for supporting Screen Concerts 007 - 011







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Cinesthesia Screen Concerts 2017 - 2019

CINESTHESIA 2017 - 2019

001 THURSDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2017

FILM: "THX 1138"
USA 1969 | 95min | 35mm | Director: George Lucas



LIVE MUSIC: HUB
Boris Hauf - saxophones, keyboards, electronics
Steve Heather - drums, electronics
Hilary Jeffery - trombone, electronics

auxxx.blogspot.com/2017/08/cinesthesia-brotfabrik

002 THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER 2017

FILM: "DER RIESE"
GERMANY 1983 | 82min | 16mm | Director: MICHAEL KLIER



LIVE MUSIC: VARG
Beat Keller - guitar
Julia Reidy - guitar

Q&A: director Michael Klier and Claus Löser

auxxx.blogspot.com/2017/11/der-riese

003 THURSDAY 25 JANUARY 2018

FILM: HÄXAN
Sweden 1922 | 107 minutes | Director: Benjamin Christensen



LIVE MUSIC:
Boris Hauf - keyboards, electronics
Alex Jezdinsky - drums

auxxx.blogspot.com/2018/01/haxan

004 THURSDAY 22 MARCH 2018

FILM: THEMROC
France 1973 | 1h 40min | Director: Claude Faraldo



LIVE MUSIC:
Joke Lanz - turntables

auxxx.blogspot.com/2018/02/themroc

005 TUESDAY 5 JUNE 2018

FILM: 1984
USA 1956| 90 minutes | Director: Michael Anderson



LIVE MUSIC:
Elliott Sharp - guitar

auxxx.blogspot.com/2018/05/elliott-sharp-plays-1984

006 THURSDAY 9 AUGUST 2018

FILM: Fenda's Pen
UK 1974 | 90 minutes | Writer: David Rudkin | Director: Alan Clarke



LIVE MUSIC: MINOR TOM
Hilary Jeffery - trombone, trumpet, electronics
Chris Long - keyboards, computer, electronics
Gianpaolo Peres - voice

auxxx.blogspot.com/2018/07/pendas-fen

007 MONDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2018

FILM: Chapp aqua
USA 1966 | 82 minutes | 35mm | Director: Conrad Rooks



LIVE MUSIC: GAMUT INC
Maciej Sledziecki - electric guitar Marion Wörle - laptop

auxxx.blogspot.com/2018/09/gamut-play-chappaqua

008 THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER 2018

MAIN FILM: "Visions Of Suffering - Final Directors Cut"
Russia 2018 | 85 minutes | Director: Andrey Iskanov
Soundtrack: Zinc Room feat.Purple Eve, Beta Evers, Inconsolable Ghost



OPENING FILM: "TRANQUIL"
Japan 2007 | 17 minutes | 8mm film → video | Director: Makino Takashi

LIVE MUSIC: INCONSOLABLE GHOST channelled by:
Hilary Jeffery - trumpet, voice
Claus Löser - electric guitar
Zsolt Sőrés - viola, voice, electronics

Q&A: Jörg Buttgereit, Zsolt Sőrés and Claus Löser discuss sound design in horror films with special reference to the work of Andrey Iskanov

auxxx.blogspot.com/2018/09/coming-soon-visions-of-suffering

009 THURSDAY 6 DECEMBER 2018

FILM: "SHOCK CORRIDOR"
USA 1963 | 101 minutes | Director: Samuel Fuller



LIVE MUSIC:
Yorgos Dimitriadis - drums, electronics
Andrea Parkins - accordion, electronics

auxxx.blogspot.com/2018/11/shock-corridor

010 THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2019

FILM:"LE DERNIER COMBAT"
FRANCE 1983 | 92 minutes | Director: Luc Besson



BROTFABRIK KINO
LIVE MUSIC:
Boris Hauf - keyboards, electronics
Alex Jezdinsky - drums

auxxx.blogspot.com/2019/01/2019-le-dernier-combat

011 THURSDAY 28 MARCH 2019

MAIN FILM:
"MADE IN BRITAIN"
UK 1983 | 76min | Directed by Alan Clarke



MUSIC:
Kaffe Matthews - laptop

OPENING FILM: "In-situ Cinema"
UK 2016 | 6min | Directed by Maria Anastassiou and Julie Myers



auxxx.blogspot.com/2019/03/made-in-britain

012 FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2019

MAIN FILM: "L'Age d'Or"
France 1930 | 63min | Written by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali | Directed by Luis Buñuel





LIVE MUSIC: XIU XIU
Simon Goff - violine, electronics
Angela Seo - keyboard, objects, electronics
Jamie Stewart - guitar, electronics

OPENING FILM: "Un Chant D'Amour"
France 1950 | 26min | Written and Directed by Jean Genet



LIVE MUSIC: MINOR TOM
Hilary Jeffery - trombone, electronics Gianpaolo Peres - voice

auxxx.blogspot.com/2019/04/xiu-xiu

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