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Pianoforte

film type experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2007 runtime 6'00 colour ,
screening format Beta SP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo

A new order between musical composition and linear narrative: According to the keyboard of a piano - Pianoforte uses 88 different film scenes showing the playing of a piano. Though, the soundtrack is completely exchanged: The images are replayed.

Pianoforte
director Christoph Girardet Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Holger Kirleis Schnitt / Editing Christoph Girardet Drehbuch / Script Christoph Girardet Bildgestaltung / DOP Found Footage Tongestaltung / Sound Design Dirk Austen
Festivals
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival, Portugal
Viennale Vienna International Film Festival, Wien, Austria
Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig, Germany
Production
  • Christoph Girardet
Distribution
  • LIGHT CONE
  • Christophe Bichon
  • 41bis, Quai de Loire
  • 75019 Paris
  • +33 1 46590153
  • http://www.lightcone.org
Sales
  • Christoph Girardet

Christoph Girardet

Born 1966 in Langenhagen;
produces videos and installations since 1987;
Girardet and Müller successfully collaborate since their found footage work PHOENIX TAPES was commissioned by the Oxford Museum of Modern Art in 1999

Filmography
1991 Schwertkampf
1997 Release
2001 Scratch
2002 Absence
2004 Fiction Artists
2007 Pianoforte
2016 Synthesis