Sofina + Altid/Aldrig noget andet
Albert R. Hildebrand, Tobias Laust Hansen, Jenny Rossander & Sebastian Cordes / Denmark / 41 min
The debut from the group 'A Good Year', consisting of video artist Albert Hildebrand and composer and producer Tobias Laust known from bands like Liss and Goss + A poetic collage film by Lydmor and Sebastian Cordes.
Sofina
Albert R. Hildebrand & Tobias Laust Hansen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 19 min
Live recordings, everyday notes and vocal music intertwine in an audiovisual project where every digital line and musical note are creative expressions of a shared grief.
An undefined faceless person moves restlessly and rapidly through different landscapes, while a mixture of live recordings, vocal music and everyday notes surround him in a dystopian, apocalyptic and hopeful universe of sound. The character is taken on an introspective, cinematic journey through a series of hyper-fabricated realities that together depict the endless wanderings of a searching soul through various stages of loneliness, ecstasy and ultimately, grief. ‘Sofina’ is an audiovisual project consisting of both a film and an album. It is the debut from the collaborative group ‘A Good Year’, consisting of video artist Albert Hildebrand and composer and producer Tobias Laust, known from bands such as Liss and Goss. The creation of the project has been a grieving process on the road to healing after the loss of a dear mutual friend.
Altid/Aldrig noget andet
Jenny Rossander & Sebastian Cordes / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 22 min
Half symphony, half documentary. A poetic collage film about Chinese poetry, the secret life of translator Sidse Laugesen, and the art of translation.
Danish translator Sidse Laugesen has a secret alter ego existence in China as the award-winning avant-garde poet Lao Shuzhen. Through the poets Sidse herself considers important, we experience the Chinese poetry scene. We meet avant-garde poet Yu Jian, who lives in a museum where Ming vases are piled high with old sheet music and candy wrappers. We meet Zhai Yongming, feminist campaigner and head of a poetic cultural centre in Chengdu, where young and old come together over the power of poetry. We meet Wang Linyan, the new generation who collaborates with rock bands as much as other poets. We meet a mysterious train conductor who waits for nothing and a group of dancing women who routinely dance their way into the night. Through music, collage, associations and fragments of words, the film paints an emotional portrait of a culture that is usually beyond the language barrier.