Flipping the Coin @ Kantine am Berghain I

This was the first edition of an ongoing series by Flipping the Coin presenting performances by associated artists at Kantine am Berghain.

 

Mike Bourscheid

 

Sonic Shadow (Satch Hoyt, Earl Harvin, Dirk Leyers)

 

Nik Nowak & Gabriel Rossell Santillán

 

Kontakt Sappho (Sonja Cvitkovic, Marine Drouan, Birgit Megerle, Michaela Meise)

 

Jasmine Guffond

 

Golden Diskó Ship

Afro Sonic Signifier

 

The Sonic Shadow project was born from Satch Hoyt’s desire to share his Sonic Texts (Soundscapes) with a broader public. In fact to take his Trans National African Diasporian sonic renderings to a non specific art world audience, as a visual artist as him, Sonic Texts are solely experienced in art gallery museum exhibition contexts, this in fact is limiting the oeuvre to an often elite group, which is not his mission.The studio recorded Sonic Texts are self composed/collaged sonic narratives in conversation with, and originally designed to accompany Hoyt’s sculptural objects and installations, by remixing and editing this material with Dirk Leyers in his Berlin studio.
12‘ inch Dubplate 25 min.

composed, collaged and produced by
Satch Hoyt

engineered and mixed by
Dirk Leyers

cover painting by
Satch Hoyt

photo by
Trevor Morgan

layout by
Satch Hoyt and Moritz Stumm

recorded at Funkhaus Studios Berlin

mastered at Phlexton Studios by
Kraans De Lutin

Side A

1. Fragmented Suite
Jason Dimatteo:Acoustic Bass Shara Wurden: voice

2. How the West was won
Satch Hoyt: percussion, voice, synth

3. Movements in Spinnister
Satch Hoyt: electric flute, processed thru
Wah Wah,Wah Synth,Whammy pedal, Line6, Memory Man Hazerai, and antique Sanzas from Congo, Cameroon,
Angola

Side B

1. Sonic Shadow
Dj Spinna: additional beat programming and co-production
Evan Sobel: engineer
featured voices: Joe Louis, Don King, Muhammad Ali, Ian Wright,
Malcom X, Jimmy Grierson, Marlon Brando hair combers: Michaela Angela Davis, Latasha Nevada Diggs

2. Celestial Vessel

Swan Song

Swan Song is a work by Lucinda Dayhew involving several Berlin based electronic and experimental/new music composers. It is a reinterpretation of the myth of the dying swan. The swan songs are pressed on limited edition vinyl dubplates by Flipping the Coin. Losing quality slightly with each play, as is the case with all dubplates, after approximately 500 plays the audio on the records will be rendered inaudible.

 

Concept and cover art: Lucinda Dayhew

 

Participating musicians: Clare Cooper . Gudrun Gut . Golden Disko Ship (Theresa Stroetges) . Jasmine Guffond (Jasmina Maschina) . Ari Benjamin Meyers . NSI (Max Loderbauer & Tobias Freund) also part of Moritz von Oswald Trio, with Ricardo Villalobos – ECM remixes & Tobias . Tom Thiel . Lucinda Dayhew

 

 

2 x 12‘ inch Dubplate

38 min.

With original compositions by

Clare Cooper

Lucinda Dayhew

golden diskó ship (Theresa Stroetges)

Jasmine Guffond

Gudrun Gut

Ari Benjamin Meyers

NSI (Tobias Freund & Max Loderbauer)

Tom Thiel

concept and cover art

Lucinda Dayhew

layout by

FTC

mastered at Phlexton Studios by

Kraans De Lutin 

Edition of 30 + 4AP´s, 470.- €

Der Espressokocher

 

On the first side of the record is the title Bonn, Beuel, Tannenbusch, Henry Moore und ich. This is one of several sound poems developed into music by Wilhelm Klotzek with the musical collective BREI .
On the second side is the audio piece Der Espressokocher which piece is based on the audio notes Wilhelm Klotzek regularly puts down and often collages a new, transmitting them as radio broadcasts. Der Espressokocher are recordings from the artist’s kitchen. For example, you can hear him grumbling about O-rings mixed with guitar play and musical recordings from Willie Nelson and Renft.

Auf Seite eins der vorliegenden Schallplatte: Der Espressokocher, befindet sich das Musikstück Bonn, Beuel, Tannenbusch, Henry Moore und ich. Dieses ist eins von mehreren Lautgedichten welches Wilhelm Klotzek zusammen mit dem Musikerkollektiv BREI musikalisch umsetzte.
Auf Seite zwei befindet sich das Hörstück: Der Espressokocher, dieses Stück basiert auf den Audio-notizen die Wilhelm Klotzek regelmässig anfertigt, und oftmals in seine Radiosendungen nochmal neu collagiert und sendet. Bei Der Espressokocher sind es Aufnahmen aus der Küche des Künstlers, in denen er z.B. über Dichtungsringe schimpft, zusammengeführt mit Gitarrenspiel und musikalischen Einspielungen von Willie Nelson und Renft.

Wilhelm Klotzek , Der Espressokocher; 2018, 12 inch Dubplate, Edition of 30 + 5AP ‘s

Shine on, you pretty pyramid

Shine on, you pretty pyramid beinhaltet eine nicht chronologische Sammlung von 120 pyramidenförmigen Architektur Fotografien vom 18 Jhd. bis zur Gegenwart, darunter Mausoleen, Museen, Schwimmbäder, Hotels, Kirchen und Kinos. Begleitende Texte sind von Carola Uehlken und Celina Basra die Grafische Gestaltung kommt von James Waite. Das Buch erscheint im Rahmen der von Celina Basra im September 2017 kuratierten Ausstellung PARK in der Galerie am Turm.

 

Lola Göller
Shine on, you pretty pyramid
58 Seiten, Risografie Druck, Schweizer Broschur
Edition von 201 Stück nummeriert, drei Farben, je 67 Rot, 67 Blau, 67 Grün
Preis: 19,00 EUR

Atl Tlachinolli

Searching for the unique Axolotl, a endemic salamander that used to live in the former lake of Mexico, Atl Tlachinolli is an essayistic inquiry into survival and adaptation, the film casts its gaze on that which remains.

“In order to escape being sacrificed, the God Xólotl transforms himself into a salamander, fleeing from what he once was. His death was necessary in order to bring forth a new era.”

So relates the voice of a woman in the essay film Atl Tlachinolli (Scorched water), which tells of the search for the Axolotl, a salamander that lives in the lakes surrounding Mexico City. The Axolotl- an Aztec word for “water monster”- lives its entire life in the water, refusing to undergo metamorphosis and conform to terrestrial life. The animal was seen for the last time in its natural habitat in 2014. A fishermen who survives on the outskirts of the megalopolis tells of its disappearance. Cognizant of the mythological immortality that surrounds the strange creature, he expresses the desire to transform into one himself.

Taking up this mythology of transformation from god to animal as a metaphor for Mexico City itself, the director accompanies a corrupt policeman and gang member in the sprawling suburbs of the megalopolis. He examines the struggle for survival in what was the former lake of Mexico but is today the habitat of 23 million people. As an essayistic inquiry into survival and adaptation, the film casts its gaze on that which remains

You don’t have to be a zoologist to understand Alexander Hick’s fascination with an animal singularly adapted to the formation of myths. The axolotl, a caudate, refuses to metamorphose. It will not go ashore but prefers to remain in the water as a larva and still manages to breed and regrow limbs. Even its heart and brain regenerate! The only problem is that its habitat has vanished. An 8-million metropolis is now rising where there used to be water: Mexico City. Alexander Hick asks how humans treat the conquered paradise through insistent images full of cultural historical, religious and mythological references. In fragmented parallel episodes he sketches the inhabitants of this megacity and their struggle for survival. Violence and corruption have hollowed out everything: the family, the institutions, the state. The film does not give us any faith in their self-“regeneration”. On the contrary. So the axolotl, worshipped by the Aztecs, is the last witness of an oppressed and abused landscape and an age when humans were still capable of building advanced civilisations. An intelligent – in the noblest sense of the word – essay film, and the bold portrait of a city. (Cornelia Klauß)

 

Trailer

 

 

Crew & Production

Director and Director of Photography: Alexander Hick

Editing: Julian Sarmiento

Voice Over: Matthias Hirth and Ileana Villareal

Music: Juan Pablo Villa

Producer: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. and University for Television and Films Munich

Executive Producer: Flipping the Coin Films

 

 

 

Infos

Duration: 75 min

Shooting format: Super 16mm

Endformat: DCP

Aspect Ratio: 1:1,85

Sound 5.1. Dolby Surround

 

 

 

Festival participation

2015, Visions dú Réel, Switzerland – Regard neuf

2015, Dok Leipzig, Germany – German Competition

2015, Festival internacional de cine Morelia, México – Cine sin fronteras

2015, Les Écrans Documentaires, France – Competition

2015, Signes de nuit, France – Cinema in Transgression, Main Award

2016, Riviera Maya Film Festival, Mexico – Mexican Competition

2016, Encuentros del otro cine, Ecuador – Program

2016, Festival de cine Oaxaca, Mexico – Program

2016, Signes de nuit, Portugal – Cinema in Transgression, Special Mention Jury

 

 


 

 

Flipping the coin Films

Einzelunternehmen Alexander Hick

Hugo- Kauffmannstr. 14

83209, Prien

Thinking like a Mountain

 

The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colombias highest mountain- the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. While on the surface this ancient culture appears not to have changed in centuries, Thinking Like a Mountain reveals a much more complex reality.

 

The Arhuacos draw from this unique environment a sustained and singular spirituality.

 

For the first time in their history the Arhuacos invited a filmmaker, Alex Hick, to visit the most remote communities and sacred sites in the heartland of their territory. „Thinking like a Mountain“ tells the story of resistance and preservation of nature, which is a voyage through space and time: from the shores of the Caribbean to the stars that light up the night on the glacier; from the Arhuacos encounter with the first colonising whites, to the homecoming of an Arhuaco guerrillero following the laying-down of arms by the FARC.

 

While on the surface the Arhuaco culture appears not to have changed in centuries, this film reveals quite the opposite. The cosmogony specific to this territory and its people has been preserved due to the self imposed isolationism of the Arhuacos, but a solemn history of violence is progressively drawn out through the film brought on by the changing political and spiritual landscape. In a thought provoking and pointed manner the film explores the colliding of two cultures and portraits indigenous life in the 21th century where isolationism seems to vanish, just like the glacier held sacred by its people.

 

Trailer

 

 

 

Protagonist

Jwikamey Torres, José de la Cruz Torres, Mamo Bernandino Suarez, Norma Suarez, Tobía Chaparro, Rogelio Mejía Izquierdo, Margarita Villafañe, Nawingumu and family, Joel Norena Serna, Mercedes Torres, Mamo Efraín Torres, Cornelio Suarez, Bunkey Torres, Alfonso Suarez

 

 

Crew & Production

Written and directed: Alexander Hick
Director of Photography: Immanuel Hick
Editing: Julian Sarmiento
Original music score: Christian Castagno and Nacho Drault

Producer: Anna Lozano, Alexander Hick
Consulting Producer: Maxim Holland, Gunter Hanfgarn

A Flipping the coin Films Production

Funding and support


FilmFernsehFonds Bayern

Freunde der HFF München

 Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film
Flipping the coin Films

 

Website

http://www.thinkinglikeamountain.org

 

Awards

Human Rights Film Award Germany, 2018

Special Mention of the Jury, International Filmfestival Vienna 2019

Festival participation

Visions du reel, 2018, Switzerland, 2018, International Competition

Cervino Cinemountain Festival, 2018, Italy, International Competition

Human Rights Filmfestival Inconvenient Films, 2018, Lithania, International Competition

Astra Filmfestival, 2018, Rumania, International Competition

Nominee First Step Award, 2018, Best Documentary

Mountainfilmfestival Graz, 2018, Austria, International Competition

Autrans International Filmfestival, 2018, France, International Competition

Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, 2019, Germany, Feature Documentary Competition

Festival Internacional de Cine Cartagena de Indias, 2019, Colombia,

Ethnocineca Filfestival, Austria, 2019, Nominee Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award

Royal Anthropological Institute Filmfestival, 2019, UK

Muestra de cine de derechos humanos, 2019, Guatemala

Encuentros del otro cine, 2019, Ecuador

Festival of Transcultural Cinema, 2019, Germany

Dokfest Munich, Nominated for the documentary talent award, 2019, Germany

Festival Présence autochtone 2019, Canada

Le Grand Bivouac – Documentary Film and Book Festival 2019, France