Aura Satz, Universal Language film still, 16mm film The film will be performed with a live sound-to-light voice-over at the Barbican cinema on the as part of Bauhaus film season.
Barbican Cinema
Universal language: A Lost Manifesto is a short 16mm film which looks at universal language and its various manifestations through abstract film, optical sound on film, phonetics, short-hand, ways of writing sound, and drawn sound animation. The film draws on two mysteriously missing utopian endeavours: the lost film by Moholy-Nagy, 'Sound ABC' (1932), and his attempt to create a grapho-phonetic writing, an opto-acoustic alphabet, as well as the lost manifesto document of Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling, 'Universal Language' (1920). The performance will involve a live voice over which converts sound to light signals, as well as a filmic kinetic sculpture in homage to Moholy Nagy’s ‘Light-space-modulator’.
To view a brief excerpt follow this link on the Barbican Centre's youtube channel:
Cinema 1Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS
Box Office: 020 7638 8891
Event detail
Credits
Filmed, directed and scripted by Aura SatzSuper16 DP Boyd Skinner
Rostrum camera animation Aura Satz
Edited with Alia Syed
Special thanks to Len Thornton, James Holcombe and No.w.here
Sound to light device construction Mike Blow
Kinetic Film sculpture construction Mihai Rusu
Funded by Arts Council England