Country: Germany, Sweden
Year: 2015
Duration: 23'
Pulheim is a German city that was recently created from the fusion of twelve villages in the countryside that were poorly connected by public transport. This led to the local population’s dependency on their own cars to get around, even for the smallest errands, which created traffic problems. The Swedish filmmaker Johanna Billing overturned the system, organizing a jam session with the pianist Edda Magnason and sixty cars, and creating a film-happening.
Biography
film director
Johanna Billing
Johanna Billing (Jönköping, Sweden, 1973) lives and works as a video artist in Stockholm. Her work combined performance art with cinema, documentary and fiction, giving a significant role to music, rhythm, and movement; her pieces have been screened in museums, art galleries, and festivals all over the world. At the center of her work there is always the individual, seen as a representation of society’s changes. She led the music label Make It Happen with her brother from 1998 to 2010, making records and organizing concerts.
FILMOGRAFIA
Graduate Show (cm, 1999), Project for a Revolution (cm, 2000), What Else Do You Do? (cm, 2001), Missing Out (cm, 2001), Where She Is at (cm, 2001), Look Out! (cm, 2003), You Don’t Love Me Yet (cm, 2003), Magic & Loss (cm, 2005), Magical World (cm, 2005), Another Album (cm, 2006), This Is How We Walk on the Moon (cm, 2007), I’m Lost without Your Rhythm (cm, 2009), I’m Gonna Live Anyhow until I Die (cm, 2012), Pulheim Jam Session (cm, 2015).
Declaration
film director
“A traffic jam is in a way the most terrible and time-consuming thing you can think of and not something you would deliberately want to put yourself in. But it has been challenging to think about how one could turn it into something that is almost the opposite – like a parade, perhaps, a kind of a quiet and unexpected Volksfest. With a similar organisational structure to that of a music festival, involving the red cross safety van and outdoor toilets, volunteers in yellow jackets etc – but without any other activity or ‘line-up’ than the cars themselves.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio/director, film editing
Johanna Billing
fotografia/cinematography
Jan Höhe, Julia Franken, Kris Willner
suono/sound
C.A. Ramirez, Ephraim Wegner, Henrik Sunbring
interprete/cast
Edda Magnason
produzione/production
Cultural Department of the City of Pulheim
contatti/contacts
Hollybush Gardens
Lisa Panting
lisa@hollybushgardens.co.uk
www.hollybushgardens.co.uk
Johanna Billing
fotografia/cinematography
Jan Höhe, Julia Franken, Kris Willner
suono/sound
C.A. Ramirez, Ephraim Wegner, Henrik Sunbring
interprete/cast
Edda Magnason
produzione/production
Cultural Department of the City of Pulheim
contatti/contacts
Hollybush Gardens
Lisa Panting
lisa@hollybushgardens.co.uk
www.hollybushgardens.co.uk
