Set Designer
The Pierre Audi production of Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", recorded live at the Salzburger Festpiele in 2006. In honor of the 250th year of the composer's birth, all of Mozart's operas were staged and recorded at Salzburg that year. Christian Gerhaher is Papageno, Genia Kühmeier is Pamina, Paul Groves is Tamino, Diana Damrau is the Königin der Nacht, Irena Bespalovaite is Papagena, and René Pape is Sarastro. Riccardo Muti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker.
Music
Documentary about the work and the unconventional approach of the painter Karel Appel. The film shows him flinging vast amounts of paint onto the canvas, resulting in dynamic paintings showing an overful, raging, run-away world. In 1962 awarded with a Golden Bear at the Berlinale. (filmcommission.nl)
Himself
Documentary about the work and the unconventional approach of the painter Karel Appel. The film shows him flinging vast amounts of paint onto the canvas, resulting in dynamic paintings showing an overful, raging, run-away world. In 1962 awarded with a Golden Bear at the Berlinale. (filmcommission.nl)
Himself
While Jan Vrijman was shooting DE WERKELIJKHEID VAN KAREL APPEL in 1961, Ed van der Elsken made the short film KAREL APPEL, COMPONIST. Appel wanted to compose the soundtrack for Vrijman‘s film, so with the help of the electronic sound studio of Utrecht University, he went for two weeks to record Musique Barbare. Van der Elsken, who did stills for Vrijman’s film, also took pictures in the sound studio, and had a tape recorder running. On the final day, he shot a few rolls of film with his 16 mm camera. Subsequently, as an accompaniment to Appel’s anti-music, Van der Elsken collected together photos, footage and sequences from an earlier film of Appel in his New York studio, and compiled KAREL APPEL, COMPONIST, a five-minute film in the spirit of the CoBrA movement. (IDFA)
