The Focus Puller
live media performance

Focus_Puller_Tower_table

During a residence in Ghent, Belgium, we organized a movie troupe that had to film peculiar locations in town just after listening to the soundtracks of a selection of movies, a soundtrack for each location.
So the starting point was the projection that a soundtrack of a feature film can create inside the vision and the transfiguration of reality seen through an eye already inhabited by cinema.
Reality is no more the primal matter of the shootings, but reality itself is composed by imaginary, matter, memories, ghosts.
The soundtrack fragments come from movies by Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, Patrice Chereau and Abel Ferrara among the others.

concept  ZimmerFrei
co-production  Vooruit Arts Centre, Film Festival Gent, Fondazione RomaEuropa, Monitor
direction  Anna Rispoli
photography  Anna de Manincor
editing  Anna de Manincor and Silvia Bambagini Oliva
sound mix and live electronics  Massimo Carozzi

duration  30 min
country  Belgium – Italy
year 2007

festival screenings:

October 16th 2007
“Almost Cinema”, Vooruit Arts Centre, Ghent (B)

December 15th 2007
Meltin Party, Romaeuropa Festival, Roma