Werner Nekes
Lagado
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Original format 16mm, 35mm
Year 1977
Language(s) German
Artist(s) Werner Nekes
Subtitles English
Running time 79 min
Films
LAGADO (1977) 79'
Description
"An experimental feature film dealing with the functional relationship between image and sound (original sound). In some twenty sequences, Nekes demonstrates the possibilities and functions of original sound and its relationship to the non-fixed image. In scenes reminiscent of silent film, he replaces sound with music, then reuses it as ambient background or employs it as a dominant informational support over the image. But in this film, the way original sound is used appears even more important than its informational value. The function of language is no longer that of a means of communication: words and sentences are so fragmented that they become incomprehensible, then reassembled according to mathematical or musical criteria. Pauses, fragments of sentences and words become the grammatical elements of a new optical and auditory syntax."
— Doris Dörrie, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich 20/5/77