KREDIT. ÖKONOMIEN DES HANDELNS 1

Film, performative concert, 2012

Experimental film-maker Daniel Kötter and composer Hannes Seidl, who have been working together closely since 2008, combining advanced forms of documentary narrative with New Music, have set their sights pretty high. In the next few years they are setting out to study nothing less than the fundamental conditions of social action by means of film and composition with their project series “Ökonomien des Handelns”. It is to be about love, security and law. In the first instalment they focus on an economy of action that has come to the fore as highly suspicious in the years of the global financial crisis – the economy of action with money, symbolised by the banker’s profession.
Kötter and Seidl bring representatives of this profession on stage for KREDIT who they had filmed in Frankfurt, not only during their work, but also during their leisure time. Putting a film together from this material, although the soundtrack has been deleted. A strange menagerie puts the film to music live on stage. Among them, two noisemakers who use the sound of air-conditioning systems, echoing steps in the corridor or the clicking of computer keyboards to create the typical ambience of different film genres, and a dubbing actor who gives his voice to the characters. Individual bankers from the film are on stage too, creating the soundtrack, from subtle to totally rackety noise textures. They are accompanied by the amateur choir of the German Bundesbank singing credos of musical history and contemporary commentaries , chorals and political battle anthems. A credo against probability, banker docufiction and post-punk oratorio in a film setting between TV feature and Hollywood.

Concept, video, music and direction: Daniel Kötter & Hannes Seidl
Scenography and artistic assistance: Rahel Kesselring
Film protagonists: Michael Zapf, Ascan Iredi, Florian Witt, Choir of the German Bundesbank
Music, sound: Andrea Neumann, Sebastian Berweck, Peter Sandmann, Choir of the German Bundesbank
Speaker: Dunja Funke, André Schmidt
Production: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Co-produced by steirischer herbst & Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main
Fotos, Filmstills © Daniel Kötter

5 + 6/10/2013 steirischer herbst 2013 @ Orpheum Graz
15 + 16/11/2013 Mousonturm Frankfurt a. M.
26 + 27/3/2015 MaerzMusik – Berliner Festspiele @ HAU 2 Berlin
24 + 26 + 28/11/2016 Wien Modern @ Künstlerhaus Brut