32 minutes of a cello and a punt boat will rewire your brain—no, seriously.
A cello piece A punt ride Thoughts about music and composition The eight lines of Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s cello piece Sequenz 2 alternating with his thoughts about slowness, space, reduction, repetition, resonance, liveliness and emotion A cinematic continuum
Direction
Rusche and Harder let time itself become the protagonist.
Sound
Stiebler's eight lines loop into something almost alive.
Director
Viola Rusche
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stiebler was a pioneer of German 'reductionist' composition, rejecting the maximalism of post-war avant-garde for radical restraint.
The Spreewald location wasn't aesthetic indulgence—Stiebler actually composed there, claiming the wetland's slowness taught him musical time.
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