{"id":1992,"date":"2020-03-29T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielhartlaub.com\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:02:27","slug":"the-spell-music-film-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielhartlaub.com\/?p=1992","title":{"rendered":"THE SPELL. J Peter Schwalm. Music film. 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LrpI3C8TCUw\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u2018<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">The Spell\u2019: Beethoven in the mixer<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Without the coronavirus crisis, our culture industry would have celebrated the Year of Beethoven in its usual way. But \u2018The Spell\u2019 won\u2019t submit to Classic Radio. \u2018The Spell\u2019 is a music video project from two artists in Frankfurt, the electronic musician Jan Peter Schwalm and the filmmaker and graphic artist Daniel Hartlaub. Schwalm chased the adagio from Beethoven\u2019s Fourth Symphony through an electric mixer. A complex landscape of sound took shape, in which a menacing underground beats time while bursting electric salvos through the tender skips of the violins. The grainy images from Hartlaub\u2019s hand-held camera stagger above all of this. Made in the New York of the late 1990s, his film narrates a woman\u2019s nightmare. Something undefined and indefinable chases her through a city &#8211; itself transformed into a space that universally lacks both fixed time and fixed place. In a free interpretation, \u2018The Spell\u2019 transports Beethoven\u2019s own personal situation to our crisis-ridden present. The decline of Vienna\u2019s nobility forced the young composer to invent radically new marketing strategies. Later, Beethoven turned away from such commerce entirely in order to create a musical avant-garde. \u2018The Spell\u2019 pays tribute to his life in this manner: like him, we now must learn to dance on the heaving ground of seismic, epochal change.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #030303; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Roland Wengenmayr (Translation: Nicholas Morris)<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #030303; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">J. Peter Schwalm\u2019s version of the Fourth Symphony from Ludwig<br \/>van Beethoven premiered on 15.12.19 in the Frankfurt Mousonturm as part of the<br \/>event \u2018The LOKAL Listener &#8211; Gregor Praml meets Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #030303; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">At the turn of the last century, the short film was shown under the title \u2018Chickenbitch\u2019 at prominent international festivals. For \u2018The Spell\u2019, Hartlaub re-edited the footage and incorporated unpublished scenes from his original shooting. <br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #030303; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Roland Wengenmayr works as an independent journalist who contributes to the Science section of the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung as well as to other publications.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #030303; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Read long version of text: <a href=\"http:\/\/danielhartlaub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Spell-Short-Version-English.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/danielhartlaub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Spell-Langtext.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The Spell (inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven)<br \/>USA\/Germany 1999\/2020<br \/>16mm<br \/>Length: 9 Min.<br \/>With: Holly Twining, Kelly AuCoin,Toby Billowitz, Aitor Azua, Catey Ott, Jake, Al Turner II, Jeff Morey, Jacqueline Macario, Carolyn Hall, Sebastian Striegel Director\/Camera\/Editing Daniel Hartlaub Music J. 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