Freitag, 23. November 2007, 21 Uhr

Gabriel Shalom:

www.gabrielshalom.com

Small Room Tango“ (2004) DV, 3:40 Min.

Directed, edited, acted, music by: Gabriel Shalom
Production, camera: Cory Choy

Gabriel Shalom: „Donny G.“ (2006), 21 Min.

Short film version of an audiovisual concert, inspired by Mozart's „Don Giovanni“

Directed and edited by: Gabriel Shalom
Music by: Ali Gorji, Matthias Ockert und Luís Antunes Pena
Soprano: Raphaela Stürmer
Accordionist: Jan Jachmann
Cameras: Gabriel Shalom, Tobi Wootton, Martin Lorenz
Sound recording: Thomas Saus
Sound mixing: Matthias Ockert



Produced by Gabriel Shalom with Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland and ZKM-Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Gabriel Shalom's visual and acoustic art practice which he characterizes as videomusic is situated in the context of electronic and popular music culture. “Small Room Tango” shows this quite clearly: A short narrative is transformed into an audiovisual performance of electronic music by rhythmic editing.
In “Donny G.” Gabriel Shalom experiments with three different ways of synchronizing images and sounds: In the first part short videos appear to be synchronous with the music, playing on the physiological tendency of people to causally link simultaneous images and sounds. In the second part minute gestures and movements of the singer and the accordion player have been so precisely matched to the music that previously subtle sounds are emphasized. Finally, video-clips of the singer performing are synched to the electronic composition made of the same samples.
For Gabriel Shalom video is an inherently audiovisual medium with its own rules for storytelling, composition and continuity which defy conventional cinematic orthodoxy.

Gabriel Shalom was born in Bethesda, Maryland, and has studied at the University of Maryland, at Bard College, as well as at the Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall and the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. Since 2005 he lives and works in Germany. As multimedia artist, director, editor and composer he has participated in exhibitions and festivals worldwide, recently in the Stuttgarter Filmwinter (2006), VideoChannel Vs. Music at the India International Centre in New Dehli (2007) and the Wien Modern (Vienna, 2007).