bettina disler

The shortfilm “sterne” is a combination of two different medial techniques: video and film (s-8).
Starting point of the work is Bernd Schurer’s composition “vexations”. I tried to transpose the music visually: to the metallically vibrating piano sounds, an halfopened flower fights for survival against a hot glowing lamp; before a dark background setting, it reveals its petals, blossoms, then gradually collapses into agony, and in the end - now as a tiny visible projection - a last mark flashes.
This is some kind of “nature morte” (still life) allusion that reflects the music’s delicately fading and rising memory of Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédies”.

Videoex: Special Mention to STERNE
"Snug in deep black a flowerlike yet undefinable something hovers and stirred by the music begins to pulsate and breathe. Yet it remains a mystery what exactly this body is which comes to life to the minimal sounds of Bernd Schurer's adaptation of Eric Satie's Vexations. It is a creature which can only become of film.
It is unique how Bettina Disler's images in "Sterne" almost symbiotically draw near the music while remaining an independent cinematographic work."


sterne


					The shortfilm “sterne” is a combination of two different medial techniques: video and film (s-8). Starting point of the work is Bernd Schurer’s composition “vexations”. I tried to transpose the music visually: to the metallically vibrating piano sounds, an halfopened flower fights for survival against a hot glowing lamp; before a dark background setting, it reveals its petals, blossoms, then gradually collapses into agony, and in the end - now as a tiny visible projection - a last mark flashes. This is some kind of “nature morte” (still life) allusion that reflects the music’s delicately fading and rising memory of Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédies”. Videoex: Special Mention to STERNE "Snug in deep black a flowerlike yet undefinable something hovers and stirred by the music begins to pulsate and breathe. Yet it remains a mystery what exactly this body is which comes to life to the minimal sounds of Bernd Schurer's adaptation of Eric Satie's Vexations. It is a creature which can only become of film. It is unique how Bettina Disler's images in "Sterne" almost symbiotically draw near the music while remaining an independent cinematographic work."