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Soft Cinema project is designed to take
a number of forms, including different movie editions, installation
versions, and publications. Each edition movie presents different
narratives and uses different media databases.
Texas (from GUI series)
release date: November 15, 2002
"The woman did not answer. She was busy mixing her own drink:
one third Coke, one third Sprite, and one third 7-up. She
finished, took one sip and reclined in her chair. The mixture always had the
same effect on her, bringing back happy memories of her childhood in Sweden..."
Hamburg (from GUI
series)
release date: January 1, 2003
This story narrated by 3 diffirent voices is about a programmer
who has a crash on a woman he keeps running into in the lounge
at company's "chill-out" floor. Mission
to Earth
release date: December 11, 2003
Inga is an alien who after spending twenty years on Earth,
finally gets a chance to return to her own planet, Alpha-1...Mission
to Earth is an allegory about Cold War immigration which
uses footage of a secret radio telescope built in Latvia in
1971.
Adsences (Andreas
Kratky)
release date: May 1, 2004
For the Absences database each film clip was analyzed in
regards to several visual qualities such as brightness, contrast,
texture, activity, the difference between the center and
the periphery, and the difference between the upper and the
lower part. The soundtrack of Absences comes from the same
parameter space: the curves describing the temporal development
of the activity, brightness and contrast values of the individual
clips were used to synthesize sounds that were then combined
with location sound. The rhythm of the filmic montage also
creates a sonic rhythm. The overall film sound track follows
the progression of film visuals from more concrete to more
abstract by moving from location sound to the layered abstract
sound.
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