Dirk Schaefer

Movies

Train Again
Original Music Composer
18 years after Kurt Kren produced his third film 3/60 Bäume im Herbst [3/60 Trees in Autumn], he shot his masterpiece 37/78 Tree Again. 18 years after I created my third darkroom film L’Arrivée (an homage to the Lumière brothers and their 1895 L'Arrivée d'un train), I embarked on Train Again. This third film in my “Rushes Series” is an homage to Kurt Kren that simultaneously taps into a classic motif in film history. My darkroom ride took a few years, but we finally arrived: All aboard!
The Exquisite Corpus
Music
The Exquisite Corpus is based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. Myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome, and ecstatic dream.
The Exquisite Corpus
Sound Editor
The Exquisite Corpus is based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. Myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome, and ecstatic dream.
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine
Music
An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.
Pensão Globo
Original Music Composer
A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the “Pensão Globo” in Lisbon, where he sets out on aimless excursions through the city. The film depicts a life in a state of transition. ”Sometimes it's like I'm already gone, become a ghost of myself. (M.M.)
Scattering Stars
Music
"STERNENSCHAUER - SCATTERING STARS is a paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.» Mike HOOLBOOM
All You Can Eat
Sound Engineer
Safe sex in the 70ies. Bigger than life in 35mm. All you can eat in 5 minutes.
All You Can Eat
Music
Safe sex in the 70ies. Bigger than life in 35mm. All you can eat in 5 minutes.