The collective brings together musicians Aleksander Olszewski, Adam Webster, Dariusz Błaszczak and Jan Fanfare, alongside video artist Maciek Piątek, known as VJ Pietrushka. Between them: cello, ethnic percussion, modular synthesizer, guitar, daxophone… topped with a layer of video. Sounds like chaos? That’s the point. Their performances are improvised audiovisual stories where music and image weave into a dense, unrepeatable atmosphere: from hypnotic meditations to frenetic instrumental dialogue and electronic noise. The paradox is that despite the absence of any plan, a coherent form emerges from the apparent anarchy. Shepherds of Cats. Draw your own conclusions. At Kinomural they’re showing Arrhythmus.
Arrhythmus takes as its starting point the early works of three pioneers of abstract cinema: Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Walter Ruttmann. The abstract films these German filmmakers made between 1921 and 1925 are torn from the studio precision of the Weimar Republic and subjected to a process of audiovisual improvisation. Some motifs directly reference the originals, others expand or reinterpret them, giving them an entirely new dimension. Homage and deconstruction at once. The refined rhythm of moving images gives way to arrhythmia. Precise editing dissolves into the pulsating energy of place, time and audience. Control and chance, structure and intuition, every sound and every flash of light becoming an impulse for spontaneous creation. The rhythm of early animations from the era of absolute film ceases to be a measure. It becomes a point of departure.
