Agnete & The Merman

2017; Experimental Dance Film; HD; Surround Sound; 55:00

Screenings:

Main Programme: Berliner Philharmoniker STROM 2020

Official Selection: Aarhus European Capital of Culture 2017

Official Selection: Render International Music Video Festival 2017

Official Selection: ZKM InSonic Immersive Futures 2017

“Agnete & The Merman” has been described as “transcendental cinema.” A modern hallucination of music, the ancient augmentation of reality, our relationships - and our spaces - the theatre, the club, the empty warehouse.

This 55 minute film is an adaptation of Cristian Vogel’s spatial sound and live theatre production that was commissioned by the Aarhus European Capital of Culture 2017 and premiered in Denmark in June 2017. Cristian Vogel is a Copenhagen-based electronic composer who specializes in immersive, spatial sound. The Automatic Message travelled to Denmark during the production to shoot and have since created this experimental, mind-bending dance film.

The film has been scored in immersive sound (52 channels of audio for it's screening at the ZKM Festival in Germany in December of 2017), 7.1 and 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound.

The soundtrack of the film has been remixed especially in High Order Ambisonics, mixed down and mastered into stereo. A full surround sound version is available for screening at festivals and cinemas.

Cast and Crew:

Merman: Siegmar Aigner
Agnete: My Nilsson

Cinematography & Video Edit: The Automatic Message
Music & Sound Design: Cristian Vogel
Make up & Fashion: VOFT / Valeriya Olkhova
Staging & Choreography: Cristian Vogel
Additional Lighting: Sune Petersen
Photography: Tanya Goehring
Production: NeverEngine Labs