SLOW MOTION

Description

Conrad Schnitzler (born in 1937) and Karl Horst Hödicke (born in 1938) – long-time members of the official artistic canon – were versatile artists who painted, played, sculpted, made films, and created music. They always positioned themselves at the edge of what was "permissible" and invariably transcended "modern" perceptions of art. Schnitzler, Hödicke, and many of their contemporaries arrived at a completely new definition of the avant-garde. The circumstances of Schnitzler and Hödicke's first meeting are unknown, but it is not surprising that it was Schnitzler who composed the soundtrack for Hödicke's film titled "Slow Motion" in 1976. The two artists were cut from the same cloth, regularly crossing all the boundaries they encountered. Schnitzler wrote the music for each of the 14 sequences of the film, linking them together in a logical progression of minimalist images. Schnitzler's musical sensibility was entirely compatible with Hödicke's cinematic approach. Not that Schnitzler had ever been a film composer. "Slow Motion" worked because Schnitzler and Hödicke were on the same wavelength, daring to experiment with sound and vision in such a way that the auditory and visual components were interdependent.