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20.11.2009

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

BLONDE REDHEAD MEETS GAINSBOURG

"Spring & by summer fall"

Still image from "Blonde redhead meets Gainsbourg" - Simone Pace, drummer, Blonde redhead.

A pinhole move by Jérôme Schlomoff, The Netherlands, 2009, color / black and white, video, 4 min

IDFA 2009 - Slection : PARADOCS

SCREENINGS

Tuschinski 5	Tue 24-11	22:00

Tuschinski 4	Sat 28-11	15:00

For the American rock trio Blonde Redhead, filmmaker and photographer Jérôme Schlomoff used a pinhole camera to make a music video of their song "Spring & by Summer Fall." The video combines outdoor shots with concert footage recorded during the "Blond Redhead meets Gainsbourg" tour in Paris in October 2008. The song appears to be about someone searching for his own life who only manages to see fragments of it in the expressions of passersby. The feelings of desolation and longing are clearly visible in the images. Unrecognizable and at a distance, the musicians play in an enormous emptiness that is only occupied by the music. Outside, the camera travels over a railroad track, looking for someone or something. The effect of the pinhole camera is that all images from the past appear to be snatched away, and as a result are endowed with something tragic. Jérôme Schlomoff started using a pinhole camera he built himself as the medium for his 35mm films back in 2000. This camera with no lens works by allowing light into an otherwise lightproof box through a miniscule hole, which records the images on film. Schlomoff's film Amsterdam Reconstruction was selected for Paradocs in 2007.

MORE INFO : http://www.idfa.nl/industry/Festival/films-2009/film.aspx...

BLONDE REDHEAD INFO : http://www.blonde-redhead.com/home.html

Live Screening - Smart Project Space

“NEW YORK ZERO ZERO” & “AMSTERDAM RECONSTRUCTION”

2 pinhole movies by Jérôme Schlomoff in

LIVE SCREENING at SAMRT PROJECT SPACE

Music composed & performed by

SMOOTH ONE music composer

MOURAD BAALI bass player

26^th NOVEMBER 2009 - 20:00 h.

Still image from the pinhole movies “new york zéro zéro” & “Amsterdam reconstruction

“new york zero zero” (Original text & voice by François Bon with English subtitle) 21 minutes.

Movie realized in New York and surroundings. My regard paces the desert city, under snowstorm. This film shows New York as a devastated world after an upheaval. Filmed with a homemade pinhole camera (35mm camera), the city seems broken, abandoned. I am questioning « How live the city nowadays ? ».

“Amsterdam reconstruction” 19 minutes.

Portrait of Amsterdam city through a filmed visit of building sites: the cinema of the Maison Descartes; the Rijksmuseum; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and the W139. This visit is confronted with a poetic vision of the urban spaces public or private of the city and its surrounding areas which I plan to film in parallel These two visions are closely linked by common poetical constituents which become evident during this mysterious stroll in a city in construction, definitively oriented towards its future.