what current is under the sea (2021)
Single-channel back projection installation, high definition 16:9, silk on glass, colour, stereo, duration: 17 min.
Notions of silence, emptiness or void, have been of interest for art and spiritual practitioners for hundreds of years as a portal into often unpredictable forms of presences. In my work I am interested in how humans shape and are shaped by experiences of silence. In a world where slowness becomes a movement of resistance to the order of our present, I am interested in creating environments of stillness that invite the listener to enter into quiet audio-visual landscapes.
what current is under the sea embarks from a silent encounter with the American minimalist poet Robert Lax and travels into natures curious polyphony of movements. A sound and moving image poem in search for 'living stillness'.
Max Bloching is a German filmmaker currently based in London. Informed by a background in social anthropology, sound recording and improvised music, Max has been drawn to questions around participatory filmmaking, migration and Quakerism, and the ways humans shape and are shaped by sound and ‘silence’. Max's last film Unwritten Letters (59mins, 2020), a participatory ethnographic film co-directed with the Syrian filmmaker Abd Alrahman Dukmak, has won the Willey Blackwell Student Film Prize at the 2021 RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film and has been shown internationally at festivals such as Visions Du Réel, Switzerland, Ethnografilm Paris and the Moscow International Festival for Visual Anthropology.
June 2021
maxbloching.com
@max_bloching
Single-channel back projection installation, high definition 16:9, silk on glass, colour, stereo, duration: 17 min.
Notions of silence, emptiness or void, have been of interest for art and spiritual practitioners for hundreds of years as a portal into often unpredictable forms of presences. In my work I am interested in how humans shape and are shaped by experiences of silence. In a world where slowness becomes a movement of resistance to the order of our present, I am interested in creating environments of stillness that invite the listener to enter into quiet audio-visual landscapes.
what current is under the sea embarks from a silent encounter with the American minimalist poet Robert Lax and travels into natures curious polyphony of movements. A sound and moving image poem in search for 'living stillness'.
Max Bloching is a German filmmaker currently based in London. Informed by a background in social anthropology, sound recording and improvised music, Max has been drawn to questions around participatory filmmaking, migration and Quakerism, and the ways humans shape and are shaped by sound and ‘silence’. Max's last film Unwritten Letters (59mins, 2020), a participatory ethnographic film co-directed with the Syrian filmmaker Abd Alrahman Dukmak, has won the Willey Blackwell Student Film Prize at the 2021 RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film and has been shown internationally at festivals such as Visions Du Réel, Switzerland, Ethnografilm Paris and the Moscow International Festival for Visual Anthropology.
June 2021
maxbloching.com
@max_bloching