Arcane Rhythms Collection Trailer (Johnny Welch, 2020)

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A collection of five short films: Discharge Working I, Mind Loop: Ghost Trail, Discharge Working II, Sonic Intangible, Aurum.

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Total running time: 1°04’16”
1. Introduction 0’00” - 2’21”
2. Discharge Working I 2’22” - 7’38”
3. Mind Loop: Ghost Trail 7’39” - 13’10”
4. Discharge Working II 13’11” - 17’49”
5. Sonic Intangible 17’50” - 33’14"
6. Aurum 33’15” - 1°04’16”

Introduction (2’21”)

The Night Bringer spits glass from his mouth.
Birds gather and fly.
The Erotic Mirror is a Blindfolded Sundial.
Creatures veil the world.

Discharge Working I (5’16”)
Johnny Welch 2017, Super 8 > 16mm > HD Video, colour, sound

In the celluloid mind a memory is cut.
Obsession loops as the machine remembers the body.
In Mental Exorcise words are emptied.
Repeated to forget, permitted to decay.

Cast: August Skipper & Luna Vassarotti
Voice: Olyana Skrjabina
S8 Negative Processing: Richard Tuohy at Nano Lab Australia
S8 Print: Andec Filmtechnik Berlin
16mm Post Production: Johnny at Labor Berlin
Telecine: Screenshot Berlin

Screenings: Director’s Lounge, Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany 2018; Bruital Movie Night Vol. I, Loophole, Berlin, Germany 2018; Primal Uproar Vol. III, MS Stubnitz, Hamburg, Germany 2018; Traverse Vidéo Festival #21, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France 2018 ; Underneath the Floorboards, Hackney Attic, London, UK 2017.

Mind Loop: Ghost Trail (5’31”)
Johnny Welch 2015, Super 8 > HD Video, black & white, sound

Footage from an abandoned Mental Asylum in Australia and field recordings from a haunted Boiler Room in France are combined in fitful, liminal rhythms.

Film Processing & Telecine: Nano Lab Australia
Special thanks: Lazer Quest (Paris)

Screenings: Analogica Selection 9, FotoForum, Bolzano, Italy 2019; Director’s Lounge, Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany 2018.

Discharge Working II (4’38”)
Johnny Welch 2018, Hand painted 16mm > HD Video, colour, sound

I. Darkness: Flesh hate breeding half slaves. Division. Hell adores infinite fools.
A. Blood: Dissolve fear beyond Eyes. Harmony. New Priest kills the Old. 
O. Sun: Drinking Fire of Fire. Undulations. Burning in Splendrous Desire. 

16mm Post Production: Johnny at Labor Berlin
Soundtrack Master: Saxon Jorgensen

Screenings: Director’s Lounge, Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany 2018; VariaVision, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany 2018; FIAF Congress 2018, Karl Zeman Museum, Prague, Czech Republic 2018; Diffraktion #8, CRCLR Economy House, Berlin, Germany 2018; Process Film Festival, Kino Bize, Riga, Latvia 2018.

Sonic Intangible (15’24”)
Johnny Welch 2016, Super 8 > HD Video, colour and black & white, sound

Featuring: Max Leonard Hitchings, Zoé Zanias & Andy Bolus
Music by Amnertia, Keluar & Evil Moisture
Sound Master: Guy Fenech
Film Processing & Telecine: Richard Tuohy at Nano Lab Australia
Special thanks: Luna Vassarotti, August Skipper, Iris Veverka, Tim Drage.

Screenings: Mills Folly Microcinema, Wisconsin, U.S.A 2018; Director’s Lounge, Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany 2018; New Year New Work, Filmmaker’s Coop, New York, U.S.A 2018; Embodiments, UFilm/Indy, Bucharest, Romania 2016; Berlin’s Unknown Filmmakers, The Hole, Berlin, Germany 2016; Finalist 17th Dresdner Schmalfilmtage Festival, Dresden, Germany 2016.

Aurum (31’01”)
Johnny Welch 2018, Super 8 > HD Video, black & white, sound

Exploiting Aleister Crowley’s Liber 777 as structuring device;
each image in the film combines to form a sigil.
The performers evoke Chthonian rhythms to magnify intent.
The music drives a hypnotic path through suspension of the mind
into the realm of the senses.

The film lives in fluxus. The first version of the film was performed live with Halv Drøm as a double-channel projection on Super 8. The performance included several painted loops consisting of nail polish, bodily fluids, charcoal, chalk and emulsion scratches.

In the second version, the film material was digitised to accompany a 31 minute mix of Halv Drøm’s tracks. The format was expanded to include a third channel in the background. Each channel loops at a different point in time, resulting in various synchronicities both in image and sound.
Music: Halv Drøm
Performers: Valentin Tszin, Olyana Skrjabina, Helena A. Tschakaloff, Saxon Jorgenson
Makeup (Helena): Sasha Noir Noir
Styling (Helena): Thea B. Adora
Telecine: Kornmanufaktur (Berlin)

Screenings: Director’s Lounge, Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany 2018; Total Black Nacht 001, OHM, Berlin, Germany 2018.

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