Daniel Kötter / Hannes Seidl (DE)

Director and film-maker Daniel Kötter and musician and composer Hannes Seidl have been working together since 2008. Together they created several pieces for the stage (“Falsche Arbeit” 2008, “Falsche Freizeit” 2010, “Freizeitspektakel” 2010, “Fernorchester” 2012), installations including “Galerie” 2010, “Festessen” 2010 together with Kathinka Walter and Friederike Meese, “Treppe” 2011, “Fernochester” 2012, and films, for example “Film für übers Sofa” (2009) and “Anschlussfilm” (2009).Their works have been shown at major international festivals (“Freizeitspektakel” at the Biennale di Venezia, Musicadhoy Madrid, Zukunftsmusik Stuttgart, and at Warsaw Autumn 2011; “Film für übers Sofa” at the Optica Festival 2009, KunstFilmBiennale Cologne, Kunstfilmtag Düsseldorf, Bolzano Short Film Festival (best experimental short film), emaf Osnabrück, among others).

Daniel Kötter, (b. in Bergisch Gladbach in 1975), is a director, film-maker and video artist. His works explore and alternate between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist experimental film with approaches of documentarism and spatial design. They have been on show at numerous international film and video art festivals, in galleries, theatres and concert halls in Europe, the US, Mexico and Nigeria. Collaboration with composers and choreographers plays an important role in his work. His main films are the Super 8 trilogy “camera movement and location” (2006–09) and the multi-channel trilogy “Arbeit und Freizeit” (2009–2011).

www.danielkoetter.de

Hannes Seidl (b. in Bremen in 1977) is a composer of New Music and lives and works in Frankfurt. He studied composition at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen and at the Institute of Electronic Music in Graz. He writes compositions for solo instruments, ensembles, live electronics, and tape music, that he has developed in collaboration with numerous ensembles (Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, among others). He has won numerous grants, e.g. from the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, the Akademie der freien Künste Berlin, and the Impulse competition in Graz (2004).

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