Festivals and Film Series

Music television no longer deserves the name, but other platforms and channels such as DVD releases, club VJing and the internet as well as participatory technologies like mobile phone cams and game engines are opening new aesthetic and thematic avenues for the music clip.
Upload sites like YouTube and the blogsphere that discusses clips and links to YouTube as an online archive make the history of music clips available at a mouse click. But media properties like loading speed, resolution and window size often make the viewing experience inferior to what was originally intended.
We present the full spectrum, from big budget mainstream works via visualisations of music in experimental film and video art to mashups, parody videos and cellphone clips and explore their discoursive potential as well showcase their entertainment value. Screening clips in cinemas offers good picture and sound quality as well as introductions and discussions with guests.