BRIDGING IT video 4 min. by Ebba Jahn with music by Paul Hubweber

                              

BRIDGING IT by Ebba Jahn, Germany 2020, HD 3:37 min.
Music title: HOLDE HEC by composer and trombonist PAUL HUBWEBER

The collage video  compiles, without words, distinctive connections over water, along with original music, which rise above time, distance and present troubles.

Composer and trombonist Paul Hubweber re-worked his 80s music title HOLDE HEC, for his new 2 cd album WARM AUSGEZOGEN > get a taste of it on the bottom of this post...

Ebba Jahn edits some of her favorite cc archival findings of bridges for it, among them an excerpt of the avantgarde 16 mm Bolex film SIDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE by German/Canadian Paul Winkler, which she had seen as a film student at her favorite intl. short film festival in Oberhausen, Germany, 1978.

A correlation between multitracks in Winkler's film images and Hubweber's music recording emerges, adding to the video's groove.

Artspaces, Film Festivals and programers receive upon request the password for viewing BRIDGING IT on Vimeo and on FilmFreeway from Ebba
or watch it at these festivals:

Next festival appearances:

 

                                                      

 





24.-26. September 2020
Novi Sad / Serbia


EXS 6
 





















Film will be available only to the Trouville, France International short film market and its video library to be held during the festival from September 7. - 11.2020.

https://off-courts.com/en/


  

    

    

Last but not least - related

Album - Above you see a Paul Hubweber video production of his album warm ausgezogen, now available in a small edition of which video BRIDGING IT, now on the film festival circuit, is proud to have the first track Holde Hec.
To order a copy of his great album email Paul Hubweber

DVD - Recently experimental filmmaker and professor Ingo Petzke contacted Ebba. He could tell her, that Paul Winkler, who is now 81 years old, is still living in Australia making films - and he likes a scene from his film Sidney Bridge from 1977 included in Bridging It.
Ingo Petzke has founded RED AVOCADO FILM and also released a DVD with many of Paul Winkler's films including the complete 13 min. film Sidney Bridge.

         

PLANETARY FUMAROLE - Sverdrup Balance | HD video by Ebba Jahn 3:51 min.

 

Teaser mopomoso digital edition #5

 

https://vimeo.com/424298148

Video by Ebba Jahn, HD 3:51 min., Germany 6/2020

This video is inspired by a call for audio / video works from a music composition festival  themed "Planetarium",  created with original music by trio Sverdrup Balance - consisting of vocalist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg from Belgium, pianist Yoko Miura from Japan, and  signal processor instrumentalist with Lawrence Casserley, a former professor for music in the UK.

For a floating journey through space I enjoyed researching images with licenses available to me and chose scenes, which were mainly created by JuliusH from Germany.

For the first time ever hear the voice of the man in the moon...

DVD or VoD PAPER PAIRS & TROMBONE

New on Vimeo VOD (1,70 ):
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/paperpairsandtrombone


DVD Limited Edition of ../50
Each cardboard case is individually filled,  sprayed, numbered and signed on the back by Paul Hubweber and Ebba Jahn, who designed it.









 

 

The available formats:

1.) DVD-R with mpeg-4 /.mp4  running on computers and in some newer DVD-Players worldwide.

2.) Upon request a DVD-R with mpeg2-DVD format can be sent. It plays on DVD-players with  DVD-R capacity as well, but so far everybody preferred mpeg-4.

The disc-top was thermo-printed which made it a little shiny.

Die Filmbesprechung von Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg ist eingelegt auf deutsch und englisch, der Text auch auf diesem Blog zu finden  >>:

Translation / Übersetzung aus dem Französischen von Beate Blasius, redigiert von Claudia Blasius.

The  review in English by Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg.

Translated from German to English by Ebba Jahn.

The origanl art for this inlay card consists of an encaustic work by Ulrike Hasenburg.

The backside of the card is of use while you are watching the DVD. It helps to follow, whose works are in the picture.






   

Buy a unique DVD via email to Ebba Jahn and receive Paypal invoice and Postbank IBAN,
or use my music shop EJProjects on Discogs

Spot for PAPER PAIRS & TROMBONE Vimeo VOD Premiere 4. Oktober 15:00 Uhr

 

SOLO I STREAM

4th of October 2020 I'll begin screening some of my short films on Vimeo,
first Sundays of the month at 15 Uhr - and it looks like you have to sign up...

I invite participating artists, contributors and viewers to join me then for a group gathering, q & a, a hang out during the screenings and after in the new Ebba Video ChatRoom on my facebook most likely with image and/or chat, answer questions, make/take comments, or else ...
you'll receive the exact info - by mail
also EbbaJahn@aol.com
 

First film up is PAPER PAIRS & TROMBONE 26'
Infos in several languages can be found on this blog.

I had to try out Vimeo's spot-making-program:

Filmseite auf Vimeo
Entweder mit Frei-Code via GoFundMe Spende oder "Eintritt" von 1,70 €
pre-order possible, sign up for emails also, if you need a free code, send a message.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/paperpairsandtrombone

Film festivals and other video exhibition occasions still have a priority, since they  show large formats or have a larger audience as online festival edition now - they prefer premiere status of films...

The booking dept. is wide open for gigs.
This filmmaker comes with a beamer to screen and converse live.

Crowdfunding is also in place for this purpose - give some if you can, or want a program, please. Without the crowd jumping in it's presently not possible otherwise, so please take a look or share:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/kurzfilm-amp-videoart-distribution-incl-festivals

Videos by Ebba Jahn | New Mediafest 2020 Corona Shutdown? New Museum of Networked Art by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

   Thanks to Wilfried Agricola de Cologne three of my videos from 2020 are shown in a marvolous  ~200 shortfilm program curated by him and scheduled via his networks.

                  If you can, give to GoFundMe Crowdfunding for EJ Films

Ebba Jahn - Kurzfilm Tour in Vorbereitung, ORTE, TERMINE, EINLADUNGEN - HINWEISE ERBETEN.

Kurzfilm Programm und Vorführungen

Inzwischen habe ich ca. 15 neue Kurzfilme gemacht, zu dem immer wieder mal einer hinzukommt und sich nun verschiedene Programme zusammenstellen lassen.
Für Festivals, Vorführungen oder auch eine Kurzfilm Tour bin ich offen und würde mich über Einladungen, Hinweise auf Orte und Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten dazu freuen, bzw. milde Gaben mit Benefits crowdfunding via Ebba's GoFundMe Distribution
Hygieneregeln für Veranstaltungen sind bekannt und werden befolgt.
 

Orte und Termine werden an dieser Stelle notiert, aber noch ist alles offen - anvisiert:

 

Berlin jederzeit

NRW  Termine sammeln

Leverkusen-Opladen  |  Zettel's Traum

 

email: Ebba Jahn

 

Zum Spot:
Bild 

Nachdem mein Vorname Ebba am 12.8.2020 zum ersten Mal in meinem langen Leben als Charactername im deutschen TV auftauchte, konnte ich nicht umhin, mich persönlich angesprochen zu fühlen... da ich ja vorher nicht gefragt wurde, ob mein Name im Drehbuch auftauchen darf, hatte auch ich letztlich keine Skrupel, diesen ja wirklich sehr schönen Filmmoment für gute Zwecke in eigener Sache zu recyceln ...
Aus Mein Altweiber Sommer zum 70. von Iris Berben - gratuliere!

Ton
Die Ursonate von Kurt Schwitters hingegen habe ich gerade mit Nutzungslizenz für einen Kurzfilm in Arbeit...

Ein möglicher Programmblock...
Mehr zu einigen dieser Filme findet sich auf diesem Blog - runterscrollen...

 

 

COMPILATION Hungry Eyes & Ears, HD 20 min. by Ebba Jahn

Eine Ermunterung vom Festival Hungry Eyes in Gießen eine bis zu 20 minütige Versuchsanordnung einzureichen, resultierte in dieser Auswahl aus meinen ca. 15 neuen sehr kurzen Filmen von 2019/2020 - drum nenne ich sie mit Dank für die Inspiration:

Compilation Hungry Eyes & Ears von Ebba Jahn | HD, 20', 2020

Alle diese Filme sind auch einzeln bei verschiedenen intl. Filmfestivals eingereicht.
Zeitlich ergibt sich für Hungry Eyes die Möglichkeit für fünf Video Collagen, die in diesem Jahr zwar nicht chronologisch aber in der letztendlich belassenen Zeitfolge entstanden sind, den Zeitgeist mit Stimmungswechsel einschliessend.

Länge / Titel

3:37  Bridging It          

6:19  Fog Horns         
3:47  Selfie With Tuba 
3:17  Whistler's Waltz 
2:20  Balm                 

Gemeinsam ist der Auswahl eine unterschiedliche Rolle von Wasser: Anfangs wird es überbrückt, dann von einer Webcam im Nebel beobachtet, ein Musiker kann es wegen Lockdown-Konzertabsagen nicht mehr mit der Fähre überqueren, ein Kunstpfeifer verabschiedet sich im vergangenen Jahrhundert vor seiner wochenlangen Schiffsreise über die Meere nach Australien, und zum Schluß legt sich eine nie zuvor gesehene Wolkendecken-Wanderung über einen Ort - Balsam.
Der Einsatz origineller Musiken von insbesondere Posaunist und Komponist Paul Hubweber bildet einen weiteren verbindenden Aspekt. Tubaspieler Pinguin Moschner und ein in Vergessenheit geratener Kunstpfeifer sind weitere ganz besondere virtuose Musiker-Originale und passen auch deshalb gut in diese Kompilation.
Die Verwendung von gesuchten/gefundenen Bildmaterialien mit creative commons licence, also mit ausdrücklicher Nutzungserlaubnis, ermöglichen es mir, wieder Videos frei entstehen zu lassen.

Poetry Video FUNGI PAIR 3 min. by Ebba Jahn with a Composition by Paul Hubweber

               In fall you can probably see, hear and read the new poetry video

Fungi Pair by Ebba Jahn | HD 3:18 min. |  2020, Germany

Two rare fungi bloom into unusual beauty. Stanzas of the poem A Mushroom is the Elf of Plants by Emily Dickinson appear in text form, accompanied by a contemporary composition for multiple instruments by Paul Hubweber entitled Zellen - cells. 

The music was recorded 1995 at Stadtgarten Köln/Cologne by Bull's Eye Ensemble, composed by Paul Hubweber who also played trombone on the piece.

The mushroom is called phallus luteus and grows probably only in Korea.

The film - I found one minute of fast time lapse video material with a license to use by Apro Choi from Korea. This found footage I slowed down to ca. 3 minutes.

Emily Dickinson lived from 1830-1860. Please see this wikipedia link to learn more about this important American poet.

Video FOG HORNS by Ebba Jahn | Festival intern. du film de Nancy 28. Aug.- 6. Sept. 2020

We see a webcam surveillance video of a harbour entrance on a foggy day in Cuxhaven, Germany. A sound of a fog horn extends into film music, a contemporary composition for his trombone by Paul Hubweber.

Ships come in slowly and the first stanza of the poem "Fog Horns" by poet David Mason from Colorado appears slowly and in writing first.These three elements - webcam image, poem, trombone music - appear in the video as if they were always meant for each other...

Fog Horns by Arthur Dove, 1929

16.4.20 - Poet David Mason has just retired fom work as professor at the English Department Colorado College in Colorado Springs USA:

I asked him what I could say during the Cadence Festival Zoom Hang event on 4/18?

"You can say I'm proud to have my poem featured in your film. I wrote the thing some years ago, while looking at a painting called Fog Horns by Arthur Dove.

Somehow I fell into five-syllable lines with some rhymes.
I enjoyed the way the form encouraged me to break out of simple logic into mood.

I'm in Tasmania, now - my home for rest of life..."

Fog Horns by Arthur Dove, 1929

The painting also visualizes the first three fog horn sounds of the video. Paul Hubweber heard it and while seeing the still silent rest of the film, he chose from his archive his composition Trombone Parts from Ab und Auf for the video.

                  Looking forward to the European Festival Premiere at:

28.8. - 6.9.20
www.fifnl.com 
Labo section program I 

 

 

 

 

15.8.20: FOG HORNS was selected by Videobardo - the Videopoetry Festival in Buenos Aires.
I'm delighted that we'll be able to create a Spanish video version.
The great poet RHINA P. ESPAILLAT has translated the poem for this video.

                                                            Buenos Aires, Argentinien 2020

VideoBardo, founded in 1996 will be realised throughout the year in different cities and venues around the world and at a CENTRAL WEEK in Buenos Aires, Argentina on dates to be defined.

                                                      https://videobardo.wixsite.com/home 

 

The World Film Festival Premiere took place Saturday 19th of April, 2020 - due to lockdowns online for 24 hours in the program Better Left Unsaid at

nwfilmforum.org/cadence

Better Left Unsaid
Not silent, these video poems emphasize language as an auditory experience, a graphic experience, and a cultural experience. A dying language left untranslated, constraints leaving language limited, and limited language leaving emotional threads through found and filmed footage—this screening leaves room for inference and poetic impressions.
—
April 19 at 7:30pm PST

 

BALM Music Video by Ebba Jahn with Paul Hubweber, Sascha Oetz

BALM Music Video by Ebba Jahn | HD 2:17 min. | Germany 7/2020

  From an album in progress with the working title HeimArtLieder

Music Title

Balm

Paul Hubweber - trombone

Joscha Oetz - double bass

Recorded in Cologne/Köln 24.02.2020 by
Markus Braun

Video
Bill Couch - camera
 
Concept   Editing  Video Production

Ebba Jahn (c) 2020 

Jean-Michel van Schouwburg writes:

White waves of clouds are hanging in the air and move forward like a lava of foam above hilly industrial suburbs.
From nowhere the voice of the trombone cleaves the space invisible like the echo of the lava moving with the help of a ghostly double bass.
A surreal wordless song blowing masses of white dreamy water cells hiding the daily labour ...

First comments:
Andrew C: I love it

Dwayne J: Das Video ist melancholisch, dennoch entspannend, angenehm :-)
Yoko M: I could enjoy it a lot
Ulrike H: Ziemlich apokalyptisch....gefällt mir.

Ingo P: Sehr schön. Minimal mit nur 3 Einstellungen. Die erste ist die beste. Am aufregendsten ist die Fliege links in der Dritten:-) Wo ist das gewesen? Musik passt auch dazu. Hätte gern länger sein dürfen, die erste...

Lawrence C: Beautiful! I remember being in the San Francisco Bay Area and seeing the cloud flowing from the Pacific over the coast hills just like that.

We'll see, when and where a premiere can take place - stay tuned right here...
Until then, festivals, artspaces, writers, interested supporters can mail for a private password to watch this video on Vimeo or FilmFreeway. Just send a mail to Ebba.

Paul Hubweber                Joscha Oetz 
Photo Credit: Hubweber Archive

LACUNA FESTIVALS | 26.6.-31.7.2020 - Online

The
The Lacuna Festival YOUTUBE channel shows some new EJ videos

 

 

https://www.lacunafestivals.com/events.php

The Lost Festivals are open and we have got lots of exciting news for you so here...

The events schedule with some of the activities is now available online and events can be booked straight away. We have a huge range of events in many languages and formats so find out more. 

Our Youtube channel is also up and running - it has not got content yet but it will do very soon. Get subscribing now so you don't miss out - just click here. 

 

Another's View of the Universe | Video Poem by Ebba Jahn, HD 4:00 | 6.2020

The title's source:
Only through art can we get outside ourselves
and know another's view of the universe
which is not the same as ours... Marcel Proust

It consists of found poetry in free form also called cento*, combined with animations depicting the universe by Julius H from Germany, and accompanied by improvised music by the intl. trio Sverdrup Balance.
For the first time ever hear the voice of the man in the moon...

This short film has further developed from a recently answered call for a music video by a composition festival in Romania with the theme "Planetarium", with original music by trio Sverdrup Balance - consisting of experimental vocalist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg from Belgium, pianist Yoko Miura from Japan, and signal processor instruments with Lawrence Casserley, a former professor for music from the UK .

*A cento is a poetical work wholly composed of text passages, here taken from six writers and artists by Ebba.

Quotation by Hans Jean Arp

Another's View of the Universe Video Poem by Ebba Jahn, HD 4:00 | 6.2020

is awaiting invitations tor screenings and is therefore only visible with a password on Vimeo or for festival curators on Film Freeway - for now. 

Please contact Ebba Jahn for it...
 

Selfie with Tuba - Pinguin Moschner | Video Collage by Ebba Jahn

Photo by Pinguin Moschner

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinguin_Moschner

After all his gigs were cancelled due to lockdowns, German tuba player Pinguin Moschner worked on a tune for a tuba-solo and recorded "tilbake" (engl. return). Performed with touching virtuosity it inspired me to make a video collage with it, so we collaborated online between Opladen and Berlin, Germany starting end of April 2020.
 

See the video also here, Nr. 77 in a row of 200 artistically interesting short videos

 New Media Fest 2020  

AQUA IMPROMPTU Video Collage by Ebba Jahn | HD 13 min., 2020

NEXT */ starts July 10th 2020:

AQUA IMPROMPTU HD Video 13 min., Ebba Jahn, Germany 2019/20

It is a video collage centering around flying drops, in space and on earth, along with coloured rivers, a sense of curiosity, joy and hommage.
Watching extreme summer weather, outside the filmmaker's window under construction in Berlin inspired the impromptu video. Her scenery and sound recordings are intertwined with memories of selected film-, video and photo materials from colleagues and agreeable archives.
Nature sound combined with Paul Hubweber's Trombone Variations and the vocal music piece Neptune's Bellows by trio Sverdrup Balance tie all elements together.
First comments from contributors:
Experimental vocalist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg from Belgium:
"The video is excellent, off the wall and deep."
Signal processor and former professor Lawrence Casserley from UK: "The film is lovely - a beautiful strangeness rooted in reality."
"Das Video ist echt gut geworden - so schön mysteriös," says photographer Gudrun Arndt.

VIEWING:
Filmfestivals and screening spaces find it on FilmFreeway  but have to request the password by email to Ebba Jahn. A small HD 720 file is also available.
Shortfilmdepot.com  and FilmFesivalLife.com have AQUA IMPROMPTU too.

NEXT FESTIVAL July 10th until September:

https://online.adaf.gr

 


















Past:

66. Intl. Short Film Festival Oberhausen  
May 13.-18. 2020 // 66. Kurzfilmtage
German Competition Official Selection
[ONLINE due to Corona lockdown] showed films for passholders 2 days
+ side program Filmgeflacker
+ www.kurzfilmtage.de   Video Library until June 16th for accredited film industry only.

#STAY HOME... Video by Ebba Jahn | HD, 1 min., Germany 3/2020 in various exhibitions

#STAY HOME... by Ebba Jahn | Video HD 1080, 1 min., Germany 2020

This is my first artistic response to COVID-19 social distancing requirements in Berlin. How make a film in this shutdown situation? For this video, expression could find a different way via 15 seconds of animation footage which I found freely available with a creative commons licence by Elena Babicheva from Moskau - thanks a lot!
I could stretch the length so it may give viewers a whole minute of awe and encouragement while moving through their own present disturbances – at least the filmmaker finds her lockdown vibes colorfully reflected and enjoys distributing it now...
The music Zauberschule comes also freely licensed out of my editing program and was mixed with electronic sounds from my archive.



Selected | Curated | Invited by:

The Nomadic Art Gallery in New Zealand
which had the first inspiring art call - thank you! 

Curated by Rob Warren, UK
A diverse multi arts online exhibition in four galleries... definitely worth several looks!
THE WORLD TAKES A BREATH





 
SODA FESTIVAL - 

ARCHIVAL ROOM 
Saarbrücken, Germany [online] Eugen

    



    The New Museum of Networked Art 
    Director - Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
    New Media Fest 2020    

    Has several artistically very interesting short
    videos and it is still growing...
    open-call-shut-down




     ... and programs are networked including Ebba's 
   from California:

Torrance Art Museum

 

     INNENANSICHTEN 
    Aufruf/Call zu einem kollektiven Filmprojekt
    der Filmwerkstatt Münster

    WE'M.Zine - Dagna, Maria

    1111 Gallery Budapest, Hungary 
    [online]                      

    Lacuna Festivals

    organised and curated by
    Sarah-Jane Mason & Simon Turner

     
   

For this festival I'm creating several works.Three of my new videos were already selected for the originally planned festivals - so I'm very happy to participate actively as an artist in this event, which has to go from Fuerteventura and Lanzarote online instead in end of June. Stay tuned...

< This Laurel came July 1st, 2020
from the Alternative Film Festival ALTFF in Toronto, Canada
 
Quarantine Section 
Ultra short films

Best 1-Minute Experimental

#STAY HOME... by Ebba Jahn
Lullaby for a Pandemic by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Stock Footage Terror Trip by William Stancik
Here 'til June by Melanie Futorian

https://www.altff.org/winners 


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Contact filmmaker / artist / curator / videographer Ebba Jahn in Berlin
email: EbbaJahn (at) aol.com

#stayathome #theviewfromhere #staysafe and most of all #staycreative #shortfilms #videopoetry