Moving Picture (946-3)

Tickets £19 // Concession £16 // Under 30 £5
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Moving Picture (946-3), Kyoto Version (2019-20)
36’ UK Premiere

a film by Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz

Rebecca Saunders composition
Marco Blaauw music production / performance
Sebastian Schottke sound design
Rudi Heinen montage

Moving images of countless colored strips and the sounds of a trumpet. Nothing about this interplay is simple, for as soon as the first note of the trumpet resonates over the film Moving Picture 946-3 and the virtual begins to merge with reality, one embarks on a spaceless, almost hypnotic dive through the structures.

The combination of image and sound opens up another dimension and spins a spherical momentum that becomes a continuous catalyst for visual associations. When the intensive, atmospheric sounds of Marco Blaauw’s trumpet, composed by Rebecca Saunders, are amplified by the collaborative work of Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz, the audience is thoroughly immersed and becomes part of a complex work of art.

‘Our first collaboration using this principle resulted in the 2016 film “Richter’s Patterns.” However, in September 2017, Richter sent me some notes on new ways he thought this principle might be applied to film. We began collaborating on a new project, “MOVING Picture 946-3,” based on his painting “946-3” – the culmination of a six-year research and development period.’

– Corinna Belz, Film Director

Subjected to this system, the original visual material – the single Richter painting – displays an astonishing array of form and coloration variations. Due to the vertical splicing and mirroring of the divided section, the element of symmetry is constant in all phases. The resulting pattern/color combinations can also bear a striking likeness to organic phenomena and various cultural symbols. At the advanced stages of the division/mirroring/repetition process – when the painting has been distilled down to a series of colored lines – these symmetrical variations are no longer visually apparent, yet somehow remain subtly perceptible in the image – on a vibrational, or homeopathic level, so to speak.

Click here to watch the trailer via Vimeo

The music for Moving Picture (946 -3), Kyoto Version was commissioned by The Organizing Committee of ‘CONTACT: Where the World Meets Japanese Art and Culture’ (Maha Harada, director and curator; Sumi Hayashi, curator), and the first presentations took place at Kyodo, the Kiyomizu-dera temple, Kyoto, in September 2019

Additional support from the Hinrichsen Foundation

Photo: Moving Picture (946-3) © Gerhard Richter / Corinna Belz