“Sealed time”, the term with which the Russian filmmaker Andrej Tarkovskij (Solaris, Stalker, i.a.) described his basic cinematic intent, also applies perfectly to this evening’s programme. Submerse yourself in exalted and timeless miniatures by Johann Johannsson, in self-possessed Pointilist melodies from the piano/electronic duo Swod, and in the smoke-swirled ambience of nocturnal journeys in Andrew Peckler’s “Elevator to the Scaffold”: in all these projects the associative, the cinematic, the essayistic is inscribed in the music. This is cinema for the grey matter that demands concentration, yet doesn’t ask too much. Stimulates without undue agitation. Sublime!
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