CVM presents a new DVD release
Robert Seidel: Projections, Installations and Films
Seidel’s work “is an immersive experience, a sensuous dip into light, color, movement, sound and change” - Los Angeles Times
Seidel, who studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar, creates video installations, media façades and experimental films. Seidel pushes the boundaries of abstraction to the sublime and organic through his approaches drawn from scientific visual analysis and digital extensions of painting and sculpture. The DVD collects his major films, videos and documentation from his projections and installations from 2001 to 2014.
"Robert Seidel’s work is organo-tech. He does not deliberately imitate the pioneers of abstract cinema, and is a world away from the motion graphic mayhem of many of those enamoured by digital animation. His work is impressionistic, melding biological and emotional currents. Technically accomplished, the greater achievement is in what it can do to our senses. It can be emotional and epic, but also draw out intimacy, and suggest insights into the human condition." (Matt Hanson, media futurist and author of The End of Celluloid)
Trailer CVM DVD - Robert Seidel from CVM on Vimeo.
PAL DVD, region-free
ISBN: 978-0-9764320-5-0
TRT: 67 minutes + Bonus Feature, exclusive interview (in English) with Seidel by Andre Eckhardt of of the German Institute for Animated Film (DIAF), 45 minutesRelease date November 2014
Produced by Center for Visual Music and Studio Robert Seidel (Berlin)
Order online here: Private Home Use $25
Order online here: Institutional Use, Universities/Colleges/Libraries $100. Limited educational license allows for screenings in classrooms and library/research collection use only. Public Performance Rights are not included outside classrooms (screenings for public audiences, and exhibition in museums and galleries are not permitted under this license). Other uses require additional permissions and licenses. By ordering you accept these terms.
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Center for Visual Music, PO Box 39527, Los Angeles, CA 90039. 213-683-1514
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Works on the DVD:
Projections: dive painting #1 (1:04 min, germany 2007), processes: living paintings (6:43 min, germany 2008), vellum (3:32 min, south korea 2009 & 2:17 min, brazil 2010), scrape (4:25 min, south korea 2011), folds (3:18 min, germany 2011), advection (4:07 min, germany 2013)
Installations & Performances: chiral (5:55 min, taiwan 2010), meander performance (2:22 min, brazil 2010), black mirror (3:00 min, usa 2011), erratic performance (3:00 min, austria 2012), tearing shadows (2:08 min, germany 2013), grapheme (3:50 min, germany 2014)
Experimental films: lightmare (4:30 min, germany 2001), E3 (3:00 min, uk & germany 2002), _ grau (10:01 min, germany 2004), winzerla woods (1:37 min, germany 2005), appearing disappearance (1:20 min, germany & uk 2007), floating (0:12 min, germany 2010)
Center for Visual Music is a nonprofit archive dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and avant-garde media.
