https://maxbloching.com maxbloching.com Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:49:36 +0000 https://maxbloching.com en https://maxbloching.com/landing-page Wed, 05 May 2021 20:06:36 +0000 maxbloching.com https://maxbloching.com/landing-page maxbloching.com <img width="2000" height="1024" width_o="2000" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4676e9a3470c877dc81db72fe0bc300b356060c282aff9cf2f355c838832dab/Original-print.png" data-mid="232806905" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4676e9a3470c877dc81db72fe0bc300b356060c282aff9cf2f355c838832dab/Original-print.png" /> https://maxbloching.com/SnowDepot666 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:58:24 +0000 maxbloching.com https://maxbloching.com/SnowDepot666 maxbloching.com Snow Depot 666 (2023, 22mins)single-channel video, four channel audioglass, steel, pvc truck tarp, glacier protection felt GLS 340 <img width="1024" height="795" width_o="1024" height_o="795" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46eeb6ae425e9e7fee6ae4e8bfdeb26076879c1f6fec05d405fecc5913f020e7/Original-Print_.png" data-mid="187645427" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46eeb6ae425e9e7fee6ae4e8bfdeb26076879c1f6fec05d405fecc5913f020e7/Original-Print_.png" /> “On the morning of December 28, 1560, people in Germany and Switzerland woke to the unexpected appearance of ‘sky fires’. Drastic weather changes and the onset of the Little Ice Age had drawn the Northern Lights far south into the Alps making the deeply religious population see dragons&nbsp;and&nbsp;devil&nbsp;figures flying through the burning night sky. Their apocalyoptic visions once captured in handcolored wood block prints set the scene for this extraordinary 22mins video and sound installation. Bloching weaves this history&nbsp;into&nbsp;the contemporary&nbsp;portrait of the practice of snow farming&nbsp;surrounding a glacier in a high Alpine skiing resort. Snow guns, technically produced clouds of ice crystals and glaciers covered in specialist tarp to protect the snow from melting in the summer heat not only seem to perform the logic of asset production and the techno-saviourism of our times&nbsp;but echo the history of apocalyptic visions among Alpine populations during the 1560s. Layering past and present dreams and nightmares of Alpine winter landscape, Snow Depot 666 traces the history of Christian apocalyptic imagination within present adaptation to ecological crisis.” Goldsmiths Artist Film and Moving Image exhibition, July 20 - 25th 2023, Laurie Grove Baths London TeamImage, Sound, Montage by Max Bloching Voice by Marie Bloching Trumpet by Milo McKinnon Additional sound recording by Maya Scherr-Willson and Marie Bloching With thanks to Tana Lucker, Dr. Jochen Hesse Zentralbibliothek Zurich, Dr. Franz Mauelshagen and the community of Goldsmiths Artist Film and Moving Image <img width="4136" height="3100" width_o="4136" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac70bba06101fa7da898fa02581c42fc13debe3445f813daef04b5d00fa244f6/20-07-2023_5209.JPG" data-mid="187645430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac70bba06101fa7da898fa02581c42fc13debe3445f813daef04b5d00fa244f6/20-07-2023_5209.JPG" /><img width="4136" height="3100" width_o="4136" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e1172d3fbd6bcdd2ece1e43bc6633a189e2d218545658190a9144c5b2cda47a/20-07-2023_5183.JPG" data-mid="187645432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e1172d3fbd6bcdd2ece1e43bc6633a189e2d218545658190a9144c5b2cda47a/20-07-2023_5183.JPG" /><img width="4136" height="3100" width_o="4136" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cae47aaff58555c80081be99b41ee291feb86d71559da05d14acf0f869e5fd92/20-07-2023_5211.JPG" data-mid="187645433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cae47aaff58555c80081be99b41ee291feb86d71559da05d14acf0f869e5fd92/20-07-2023_5211.JPG" /><img width="4136" height="3100" width_o="4136" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54e8b1792a52ed07ce9ee045373eff7cd658cf040a7489f9e3369fd03b857602/20-07-2023_5167.JPG" data-mid="187645428" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54e8b1792a52ed07ce9ee045373eff7cd658cf040a7489f9e3369fd03b857602/20-07-2023_5167.JPG" /> <img width="4136" height="3100" width_o="4136" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68f490ddd9ece6dc096361288741e3c62b1e13557edd14209c602854c2e3f299/20-07-2023_5177.JPG" data-mid="187645434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68f490ddd9ece6dc096361288741e3c62b1e13557edd14209c602854c2e3f299/20-07-2023_5177.JPG" /> <img width="4136" height="3100" width_o="4136" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16c7c9044a299aceee7b3f63a3be274c2905c3719e6649db1e32495a069eb5d1/20-07-2023_5178.JPG" data-mid="187645429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16c7c9044a299aceee7b3f63a3be274c2905c3719e6649db1e32495a069eb5d1/20-07-2023_5178.JPG" /><img width="4136" height="3100" width_o="4136" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbd9d0fcb19d5981afa4070ff48dbc595ea6498f7aa4e6296d34d7250737c44d/20-07-2023_5191.JPG" data-mid="187645431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbd9d0fcb19d5981afa4070ff48dbc595ea6498f7aa4e6296d34d7250737c44d/20-07-2023_5191.JPG" /><img width="8272" height="6200" width_o="8272" height_o="6200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/587d8ca8dae492cc4097f69220147c5f8c115e8a5f581c2176e325491812a9e0/26-07-2023_5293.jpg" data-mid="187645436" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/587d8ca8dae492cc4097f69220147c5f8c115e8a5f581c2176e325491812a9e0/26-07-2023_5293.jpg" /><img width="4136" height="3100" width_o="4136" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c800666f41cb0a480a51a992dfac1b6565337abf85a47c100429f3e6b68589b9/20-07-2023_5188.JPG" data-mid="187645437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c800666f41cb0a480a51a992dfac1b6565337abf85a47c100429f3e6b68589b9/20-07-2023_5188.JPG" /><img width="3534" height="2590" width_o="3534" height_o="2590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/726e1747b6bb0877ac20455705d9823f2210c5cce1d5fd53a64e6de25a8969d7/20-07-2023_5193-copy.JPG" data-mid="187645615" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/726e1747b6bb0877ac20455705d9823f2210c5cce1d5fd53a64e6de25a8969d7/20-07-2023_5193-copy.JPG" /><img width="4136" height="3100" width_o="4136" height_o="3100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b636876934677c83ae9e9b16da4735de1ed5175e00300dd65a3a2bb996b5c561/20-07-2023_5173.JPG" data-mid="187645839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b636876934677c83ae9e9b16da4735de1ed5175e00300dd65a3a2bb996b5c561/20-07-2023_5173.JPG" /> https://maxbloching.com/info Wed, 05 May 2021 19:21:19 +0000 maxbloching.com https://maxbloching.com/info maxbloching.com Max Bloching (b. 1994 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany) is an artist filmmaker and sound designer based in Berlin.&nbsp; Recent and upcoming: Eaux et Pays, sound design for the video installation by Jack Farman for the Centre Pompidou festival “Hors Pistes / Hors Champs” (opening July 1st 2026) Demolition/Escape, sound design for the installation by James Richards at Fluentum Berlin (opening: 28th of April 2026). Built to Order I, sound design for the video installation by Bethan Hughes at European Media Arts Festival at Kunsthalle Osnabrück (opening: April 22nd, 2026)In the Ear and Now. Rethinking Apocalyptic Imaginations through Sound, essay for Darkmatter Journal - Special Issue #18 on&nbsp;Envisioning Planetary Futures.&nbsp; ︎ read hereDer aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui, sound design for the theater play by Bertolt Brecht,&nbsp;directed by Christian Stückl at Münchner Volkstheater (premiere: March 19th, 2026) Fevers, sound design for the video installation by James Richards at Sylvia Kouvali Galley London (opening: March 12th 2026) Appropriate,&nbsp;video installation for the theater play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Christian Stückl at Münchner Volkstheater (premiere: October 31st 2025) Ground Practice (2025, 16mins) will be shown at The Listening Biennial at Ballhaus Ost, Berlin (September 2 - 6, 2025), Cultural Center of Belgrade (August 31 - September 6) and Scuola Piccola Zattere, Venice (October 24th) as well as at Cittipunkt Berlin (August 2nd 2025) and Avalon Cafe London (July 25th 2025), group screening organised by Cittipunkt and Weathergirl.Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) is screening on LaboCine as part of its August issue on ‘Resonance’ as well as at the Animal Nature Film Festival London (October 25-November 23rd 2025). Nameless (2025, 14mins), montage and sound design for film by Abd Alrahman Dukmak, world premiere at Lago Film Festival (July 22nd 2025) Fernlicht (2025, 79 mins), sound recording and foley for feature by Johanna Schorn Kalinsky with Marie Bloching, world premiere at FID Marseille (July 11th 2025) Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) will screen at Berwick Media Arts Festival (March 30th 2025) and FuBen Film Club, Ji’nan China (April 26th 2025). Don Karlos, sound design for&nbsp;theater play by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Christian Stückl at Münchner Volkstheater (premiere: March 2nd 2025) Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens will be shown at ALTEFF Film Festival, India: 23.11. Museo Camera, Centre for the Photographic Arts, Gurgaon, 29.11. Courtyard Koota, Bangalore, 30.11. Earthbound, Goa, 03.11. Earth Day X Eseds School of Design, Kolkata, 01.12. Agora, The Space, Guwahati, 04.12. Media the Stage, Bengaluru, 08.12. Whistling Woods International, Mumbai, 08.12. Arthshila, Santiniketan.&nbsp; Lichtspiel, video installation for the theater play by Christian Stückl at Münchner Volkstheater (premiere: October 31st 2024)&nbsp; Polscher 4 - The Isfet Complex,&nbsp;concert at Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich (September 24th 2024, 8.30pm). With&nbsp;Florian Walter - double bass clarinet, Mark Polscher - soprano, Florian Zwißler - synthesizer, Max Bloching - upright bass. &nbsp;&nbsp; Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) is showing at 321 Space in Beijing, China (June 28th 2024), at Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder, USA (August 14-18, 2024), Film Festival della Lessinia, Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy (August 23-September 1st 2024), International Shorts Screening organised by Dogme23 at Communication University of China (November 19, 2024) Les mains négative,&nbsp;sound design for the artist film by James Richards, shown as part of Workers in Song at KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (June 7-9, 2024) Happy Fall Triology, sound design for the video installation by James Richards for Preis der Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (7th of June 2024 - 5th of January 2025) Tomorrow, the Burning Heavens (2024, 22mins) will have its world premiere on the 13th of April at Visions Du Réel, Nyon Switzerland (12–21.4.2024)&nbsp;︎ trailer&nbsp; Snow Depot 666 is showing at&nbsp;Goldsmiths post graduate degree show July 20-25, 2023, Laurie Grove Baths, South East London.&nbsp; I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty) by Tolia Astakhishvili and James Richards with sound design by Max Bloching is showing at Bonner Kunstverein (March 25 – July 30, 2023) and Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (June 23 – September 24, 2023) Symposium on Unwritten Letters&nbsp;in HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory University of Chicago Press is out now ︎ read here RAI Film Conference 2023, Panel: Envisioning planetary futures through ethnography and multiple media, Paper: The sky is on fire – reconsidering the Little Ice Age in sound and moving image, (March 8th 2023) what current is under the sea (17mins, 2021) will be shown at “Above Land”, Electro Studios Project Space, St. Leonards-on-Sea (November 25th 2022) **Unwritten Letters is now being distributed on DVD and Video on Demand by the Royal Anthropological Institute** Unwritten Letters (59mins, 2021), co-directed with Abd Alrahman Dukmak, will be shown at RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film (March 19-28 2021, recipient of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize), Ethnografilm Paris (April 13-18 2021), the Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology (April 28 to May 16 2021), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (May 18 2021), at the Archive of Migrant Memories, Rome (June 17-27 2021), at Mimesis Documentary Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado, USA (August 4-10 2021), the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, Baltimore, USA (November 12-22 2021), Ethnografilm Paris (April 19-23 2022) and Ethnografische Filmtage Bremen (January 24-26 2023)what current is under the sea (17mins, 2021)&nbsp;will be shown at&nbsp;“The Second Body”, group show at APT Gallery, London (June 17-20 2021)&nbsp; "Mediterranean Crossings: Refusal and Resistance in Uncertain Times", International Conference, University of Milan, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion&nbsp;(June 24-26 2021) Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion, (August 30 2021)&nbsp;Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, script writing workshop, (January 14 2022)&nbsp; Bard College New York,&nbsp;Unwritten Letters screening and discussion, (March 15 2022)&nbsp;Bard College Berlin and Bard College Palestine, Unwritten Letters screening and discussion, (March 17 2022)Education:MA Artist Film and Moving Image, Goldsmiths University of London (2023) BA Social Anthropology, SOAS University of London (2020) Work as sound recordist for clients such as Apple, Netflix, Al Jazeera, PBS, KBS, Birkenstock and Universal Music.&nbsp; Contact:&nbsp; maximilian.bloching(at)gmail.com https://maxbloching.com/what-current-is-under-the-sea Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:49:36 +0000 maxbloching.com https://maxbloching.com/what-current-is-under-the-sea maxbloching.com what current is under the sea (2021, 17mins) single-channel video, stereo, back projection, steel, silk on glass <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb7b1ceed057b049078c4850a0448c688c05b6db5c0c2ea8345b4432a55993ee/Still-1.jpg" data-mid="185142639" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb7b1ceed057b049078c4850a0448c688c05b6db5c0c2ea8345b4432a55993ee/Still-1.jpg" /> what current is under the sea embarks from a silent encounter with the American minimalist poet Robert Lax and travels into natures curious polyphony of movements. A sound and moving image poem in search for 'living stillness'. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/955d38a618ec7637de583e6cfcf53063598321b323decf0195c7aaf87a1924aa/Still-2.jpg" data-mid="185142658" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/955d38a618ec7637de583e6cfcf53063598321b323decf0195c7aaf87a1924aa/Still-2.jpg" /> From 2019 to 2020 I was doing fieldwork among Quaker communities in London, being fascinated by the ways Quakers actively shape experiences of collective silence during their meetings of worship. It left me with a curiosity about how notions of silence, emptiness or void have been employed by art and spiritual practitioners throughout history as portals into often unpredictable forms of presence. what current is under the sea draws on the works of three figures who had their very own practice and thoughts on silence and stillness: Franz Kafka, the composer Morton Feldman and his contemporary Robert Lax, the great American minimalist poet. During the 1990s, Robert Lax was portrayed by filmmaker Nicolas Humbert, who together with his camera met up with Lax for sessions of shared silence – ‘silent improvisations’ – an extract of which Nicolas kindly allowed me to use. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a174618f25c6a559e6799bb72729f957fe41b76b2cd64697ad0d2004eecaed1/Still-3.jpg" data-mid="185142667" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a174618f25c6a559e6799bb72729f957fe41b76b2cd64697ad0d2004eecaed1/Still-3.jpg" /> With the support of MA Artists` Film and Moving Image, Goldsmiths University of London Thanks to Nicolas Humbert, whose silent improvisations with Robert Lax were captured in My Eye Your Eye Andrea Jorge Sanchez, whose beautiful whisper brings to life the poetry of Mr. Lax Screened at “Second Body”, APT Gallery, South London, 2021 “Above Land”, Electro Studios Project Space, St. Leonards-on-Sea, 2022 ︎ preview screener <img width="731" height="974" width_o="731" height_o="974" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88a193c23b0c48e44c57e77147050a4e9c1eeb8fd343271357d12be91ee4de9a/Installaiton-view.png" data-mid="185143891" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/731/i/88a193c23b0c48e44c57e77147050a4e9c1eeb8fd343271357d12be91ee4de9a/Installaiton-view.png" /> https://maxbloching.com/London-in-silence Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:48:05 +0000 maxbloching.com https://maxbloching.com/London-in-silence LONDON IN SILENCE2018, 11 mins “3 am is eternal. 3 am is infernal. It´s the time at which fear and sadness and regret rack up so that it becomes impossible to get to sleep. 3 am is the dark heart of the city, when the silent night amplifies the din in our skulls, returns us to a primal solitude.” (Sukhdev Sandhu 2007) "London in Silence" explores the moment in which 'the better version of oneself' crumbles. A slowly flowing substance makes its way - from the inner worlds of callers into their telephones, through London´s cable network towards the speaker of one the volunteers of the wellbeing hotline Nightline. "Often though callers stay on the line for over a quarter of an hour without saying a word. But silence is not silent." A late night encounter with a listener on the other side of a "London in Silence”. Camera, sound, editing by Max BlochingVoiceover based on “Night Haunts” Written by Sukhdev SandhuPublished by Artangel and Verso 2007Copyright © Sukhdev SandhuVoice by Milo CradickMusic by Tom Woerndl Telephone interview with a volunteer of the wellbeing hotline “Nightline”&nbsp;Thanks to the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London. ONLINE SCREENER: