Film Comment:
Life in Loops - A Megacities rmx
LIFE IN LOOPS is a new version of a film using original film material and mixing it with new imagery. About 30% of the footage originates directly (in a new edit) from the documentary film MEGACITIES by Michael Glawogger, the rest is constructed from previously unused and new footage of Tokyo filmed by MEGACITIES cameraman Wolfgang Thaler. The sound, created by the Sofa Surfers, defines the visuals edits and vice versa. The result is a symbiotic relationship between image and sound that could best be described as an experimental-music-documentary film.
This film is only available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Credits
Original Title: Life in Loops - A Megacities rmx
Language:
English-Hindi-Spanish-Japanese-Russian original version with English subtitles
Country of Origin: Austria
Year : 2006
Duration: 79 Min.
color
Director: Timo Novotny
Script: Timo Novotny, Michael Glawogger
Camera: Wolfgang Thaler
Editing: Timo Novotny, Armin Herzog, Gerald Schober
Music: Sofa Surfers
Production: Orbrock Film, inLoops, Ulrich Gehmacher, Timo Novotny
Festivals: 2008: ONE WORLD BERLIN Film Festival for Human Rights and Media
Awards: 2007: Golden Deer Award, dialektus, Budapest; 2006: Best Documentary Award, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
supported by: Vienna Film Fund, Niederösterreichisches Kultusministerium, Nokia Austria GmbH
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About the Film
Multimedia artist Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film.
This is a remix of the celebrated film MEGACITIES, a visually refined essay on the hidden faces of several world 'megacities' made by leading Austrian documentarist Michael Glawogger. Novotny compliments 30% of material taken straight from the film (and re-editited) with 70% as of yet unseen footage in which he blends shots previously unused by Glawogger with his own sequences (shot by MEGACITIES cameraman Wolfgang Thaler) from Tokyo.
Alongside the Japanese metropolis, LIFE IN LOOPS takes us right into the atmoshere of Mexico City, New York, Moscow and Bombay.
The electrifying combination of fascinating film images and an equally compelling soundtrack from Sofa Surfers sets us off on a stunning audiovisual adverture across the continents. The film also contributes to the discussion on new trends in documentary filmmaking.
Director Timo Novotny remixes MEGACITIES footage live, creating LIFE IN LOOPS.
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