FLUX SURREAL 8 min. by Ebba Jahn

Proposed by the new Monk Film Festival in Italy, Ebba Jahn took the opportunity to choose one of the suggested music works to make a video with - it is "La scalata" by double bassist Nello Toscano who plays the cello here and mixed it with additional man-made sounds.

Someone on the move through "lost places" came to her mind, so she worked with collages by Stefania Buzatu to create this flux of sur-real experience, with images of a surrealism that grew within its existence of 100 years now.

Nello Toscano: In fact, the steps and breathing were recorded during a climb on the crater of Etna and the cello was recorded afterwards. The meaning of the (music) piece is twofold and therefore represents a real climb on the volcano but also the effort to reach a goal that escapes you and, philosophically, 'the existential effort of becoming'.

Nello Toscano

Video FOG HORNS by Ebba Jahn | SIRENAS DE NEBLINAS | NEBELHÖRNER Festival updates 2021

 24.-25.October 2021

• SeeMôr Film Festival,
  C/O Ucheldre Centre, Millbank
  Holyhead, Anglesey LL65 1TE
  United Kingdom

www.poetryfilm-vienna.com

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 2021 in NOVEMBER

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

 

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

Next
Diorama Room Presents
Tune into Green
Short Film Series
Winter Program
starting November

www.dioramaroom.com

Festival Appearance

July 2 - August 1, 2021

Included in Programs
PAUL HUBWEBER SHOWCASE
MOPOMOSO TV #6 the internet program for improvised music

              
2. The Poetry Video:

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

 

The first video of both.
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 the film length.

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

Another's View of the Universe | Video Poem by Ebba Jahn, HD 4:00 | 6.2020 | 9th Intl. Video Festival 2021/2022 | filmpoetry.org

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...

See it here: filmpoetry.org  | Video Art 2021

This short film has further developed from an  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 sourced from six writers and artists by Ebba.

Quotation by Hans Jean Arp in Another's View of the Universe
Video Poem by Ebba Jahn, HD 4:00 | 6.2020

 

SCREENINGS next and ongoing:
 

4. German Film Festival Premiere:

3. Film Festival Premiere: 9th Intl. Video Poetry Festival Athens, Greece 

 

 

 

 

2. Alphabet Cinema

Collection Nr. 192



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1. Lacuna Festival Cabaret 2020

 

 First Film in the cabaret hour

Goethe in Train | Goethe im Zug | Train Ride Duet | 3 versions of 1 video by Ebba Jahn

Three versions I made of this found footage one-take shot during lockdown time and titled it Train Ride Duet. Since I appreciate Paul Hubweber's music I asked him for a soundtrack and voila, we had a music video.

Later I heard about a Goethe poetry video call in Thüringen. I picked J.W. Goethe's 12 liner poem Sei im Leben wie im Wissen and titled the film Goethe im Zug.
For international screenings I translated it and placed each English line under the German line, so both languages can be read while listening to the music and looking out of the train window on to the sea.

I like the idea of reading Goethe in a train with a beautifully swinging jazzy duo playing a composition by Stevie Winwood.
So now it's a one-take video, a music video, a train-movie and a poetry video all in one....
 

It will have its premiere at Lacuna Festivals for Contemporary Art_Distance 2021. The film festival premiere will take place at SeeMor Film Festival on Anglesey UK.

 

Next:
24.-25. Oct. 2021

 https://www.angleseyartsforum.org/seemor/

• SeeMôr Film Festival,
  C/O Ucheldre Centre, Millbank
  Holyhead, Anglesey LL65 1TE
  United Kingdom  

 2. July - 1. August 2021

https://www.Lacunafestivals.com

   This music and more tracks are available on a cd Album here >> in my discogs store.

Solos for Encaustics | Video Collage by Ebba Jahn with Oxford Improvisers and Paper Pairs by Ulrike Hasenburg, 5:30 min

A women's arts interplay with images and recordings by the Oxford Improvisers in this order of appearance:

Suzanne Healey - tone woods
Jill Elliott - viola
Clare Woodham - bass clarinet with Emma Wellings - djembe 
Camilla Cancantata - vocals, piano
Rosalind Bleach - viola
Lizzy Spight - vocals, flute, dance
Nini Sakhri - piano, gongs, soundscape, vocals

Encaustic Paper Pairs by Ulrike Hasenburg

Video Collage by Ebba Jahn
5:30 min. HD 3/2021

Next Festival Appearance
July 2 - August 1.,2021

Lacunafestivals.com

 

 

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Video THE CREEK by Ebba Jahn, 2020, HD 2'

 
A video based on poem Lethe the river in the underworld of Greek mythology - those who drink of its water lose their memories... 

Inspired by a call from Zebra Poetry Festival in Berlin for TJ Dema's poem.

Written and spoken by Tjawangwa TJ Dema,
a published poet and educator from Botswana, Africa,
from her poetry collection The Careless Seamstress
Audio Production: Haus für Poesie / lyricline.org, 2013

Music from CD Isla Decepción - Fumarole Bay
by trio Sverdrup Balance - Jean Michel Van Schouwburg, Yoko Miura, Lawrence Casserley

Film Festival Premiere - Online:

                https://papaya.rocks/en/brands/papaya-rocks-film-festival

 

 Film #173 in collection of 

http://wake-up.engad.org/open-call-shut-down/

 

 

 

 

https://thinkshorts.com/35185/the-creek-lethe

SMILE - Paul Hubweber Trombone | Video 2:56 min.

Paul Hubweber Trombone
Composition Charlie Chaplin
for his film Modern Times, 1936

Rec 2021 - Jan - 22
Alte Brauerei - Napoleonsberg - Kornelimünster

Final Video Production in Berlin 
HD 1920 x 1080 | 2:56 min.
Ebba Jahn 

info@EbbaJahn.com

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

Now on MOPOMOSO TV 6

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.
 

                                                             Now on MOPOMOSO TV #6

 tv.mopmoso.com
Please check it out and find  all programs...

Also in Cinema K until November 20, 2020

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

 New Media Fest 2020