Warten (engl. waiting)

Cast: Martin Rother
Written/Produced/Directed/DOP: Marianne Borowiec
Directed/Edited/Foley: Boris Seewald | www.borisseewald.de
Photo: Arnold Walter

Shot on Canon EOS 5D MKll
100mm Macro

Berlin, Germany 2012

A spontaneous snowy Sunday afternoon shoot.

A Film by Boris Seewald

Music by Ralf Hildenbeutel

Cast: Miwha Hanna | Mark Hanna

Shot with Canon EOS 550D/Rebel T2i on a handmade SnorriCam with EF-S18-55mm and EF50mm f/1.8

Berlin, Germany 2012

Enjoy the 50s!

Hellman’s play focuses on the events that transpire after a troubled teenager starts to spin a web of deceit about two teachers at an all-girls boarding school.

In The Children’s Hour, Marama Corlett plays Lois Fisher. She doesn’t get things as quickly as all the other girls and struggles a lot with Latin.’ To Marama, the play is about a lie that expresses issues of love and fear, on many different levels. One of the cool things about the play is that the majority of characters are female. It is usually the other way round.’

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Wunderland by What a Witch’s score composer Ralf Hildenbeutel follows up the preview purely with strings and piano recorded album Lucy’s Dream, however it is much more continuating and playful. You hear accordeons, piano, glockenspiel and strings, toypiano and ukuleles, partly peppered with spoken vocal pieces like sequences from movies.

The stringquartet at the sea (”Heimweh”), a reverby piano (”Merry goes round”), canonlikes playing kalimbas, the rythmic The Feast (Musicvideo made by What a Witch’s Director Boris Seewald), an almost epical “From Elsewhere” or the walz The Spirits that I Called with Dorit Chrysler playing the theremin (this fascinating instrument which is played by the distance from the hands to two aerials) shows the variety of the new album.

The recordings have been made whithin the last two years. Whenever there was time inbetween other projects and productions Ralf collected numberless ideas, bits and pieces, archived them, elaborated them. Collected items such as toypiano, accordeons or the old violin of his grandfather have been used as well as harp, guitars or an old french glockenspiel.

The album was completed by the wunderful artwork of the German-Russian artist Sonja Sofia Yakovleva.

Lean back and enjoy. Again a very personal album of the artist who recommends to listen to it at once. It seems a bit old-fahioned in these days but it increases the pleasure of listening exquisitely…

A new Musicvideo by Boris Seewald for Ralf Hildenbeutel’s track “The Feast” from his upcoming Album Wunderland. The Album will be released on the 19th of November.

A new film from What a Witch’s director Boris Seewald. Inspired by a quote from Goethe’s Faust he created this abstract piece using the music of Hegemund, a project-collaboration between What a Witch’s score composer Ralf Hildenbeutel and Gottfried Tollmann.

Hegemund is the name of the project-collaboration between Gottfried Tollmann & Ralf Hildenbeutel which started initially in 1994 in Los Angeles. The two musicians met working with the label Eye Q Records in Frankfurt where Hildenbeutel produced the albums of Sven Väth or his own project Earth Nation. Tollmann joined with releases like “Baked Beanz” (with Helmut Zerlett & Nicolle Meyer) on Eye-Q’s sublabel “Recycle or Die”.

The two musicians found a common denominator in their love for modern art and master drawings as well as for Bach and the destructured electronic mind music of the 90′ies. In this spirit they released their first album called “TollmannHildenbeutel” in 1995. The music was conceived and recorded in Tollmann`s home town Los Angeles where the artists got stuck in their jeep in the national park of Yoshua Tree , CA, while filming the video “isn`t it a funny bird?” (1995) for the album recording ants in their hive.
It was obviously their sense of humour which made them survive a night in their 4wheel drive surrounded by rattlesnakes.
They had hunted & collected sounds of the southwest and the city and put it in the blender in Ralf`s studio in Frankfurt creating a vivid image of their Los Angeles impressions. The hybrid theory of the electronica and the grand piano, the detuned acoustic guitar, the cries of apes and hornbills.
after their adventures and fun Tollmann and Hildenbeutel decided to keep connected and started to randomly film and record sounds and noise in their newly found haven which should become their second home: Paris. Over a period of ten years they developed their love for french wine and culture and collected a small library which they finally put to good use on this latest release “Hegemund”.

In Hegemund`s “Nuit Blanche” we find the continuation of the idea of tales from 10 cities, the vison of a project the artists had talked about in the beginning.
Each album has the autobiographical and geographical longitude of a life shared in a different hemisphere, the Paris experience being even more ” acoustic” in many ways, even more humorous because of the nonchalantly adoptted musical forms,

Hegemund does not care if you call it “electro bossa” or “jah music” or “le jazz”….they let you know with a wink that they like the deconstruction of pop if it serves their purpose.
Music with a thought and a laugh, but to be taken seriously.

The artwork for the album was made by longtime friend, the creative director of English Vogue and photographer Robin Derrick who used an image from his ‘cut flowers’ series for the album.

(Marie Helene Leclerc , Paris)

The movie, directed by Ralf Hüttner, will be released on the 22nd of April in German cinemas by Constantin Film. Some of the actors are Karoline Herfurth, Heino Ferch and Florian David Fitz, who also wrote the screenplay.

Watch the trailer (German):