Sylvia Schedelbauer (born 1973) is an experimental filmmaker.
Biography
editSchedelbauer was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1973, to a German father and a Japanese mother. She moved to Germany to attend the Berlin University of the Arts.[1]
Her first short film Memories (2004) was screened at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.[1] It is a documentary that presents a slideshow of family photos with voiceover reconstructing Schedelbauer's family history.[2] Her next film Remote Intimacy marked a transition away from narrative and toward collage, with archival footage taken from home movies, newsreels, and educational films.[1] Schedelbauer worked as an editor on Craig Baldwin's 2008 science fiction collage film Mock Up on Mu.[3]
Schedelbauer's 2011 film Sounding Glass uses a strong flicker effect, with a score by Thomas Carnacki featuring the sounds of glass, water, and string instruments.[4] Her 2014 film Sea of Vapors uses highly layered superimpositions to depict "the female body and its cycles, the connections that we feel toward nature." She used Final Cut Pro to create the film's shifting, flickering patterns, by repeatedly stacking images on top of each and exporting the result.[5] In Wishing Well (2018), Schedelbauer creates a flickering pattern by combining images of a child playing and a drone.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c Scateni, Ren (October 2022). "Sylvia Schedelbauer's Polyphonic, Cinematic Assemblages". ArtReview. pp. 82–87. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
- ^ Pavsek, Christopher (2014). "The Impertinence of Saying 'I': Sylvia Schedelbauer's Personal Documentaries". In Curtis, Robin; Fenner, Angelica (eds.). The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film. Cambridge University Press. pp. 52–69. ISBN 978-1-57113-917-7.
- ^ Dargis, Manohla (January 13, 2009). "Star Log: Trippy Sci-Fi Mash-Up Alert!". The New York Times. p. C2. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
- ^ Feller, Ross (2013). "Sonic Circuits 2012: A Festival of Experimental Music". Computer Music Journal. 37 (1): 70–71. doi:10.1162/COMJ_r_00155.
- ^ Powers, John (2023). Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture. Oxford University Press. pp. 156–157. ISBN 978-0-19-768339-2.
- ^ Malhotra, Anuj (May 2022). "From Within the Umbra of History: A Few Things about the Films of Rainer Komers, Sohrab Hura and Sylvia Schedelbauer". Senses of Cinema. No. 101. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
