Autumn Rhythm Film
Torsten Lauschmann
14 - 23 March 2002

‘Autumn Rhythm Film is an attempt to merge database and narrative into a new form. The work is a hybrid between a software application and a film. The software continuously selects and mixes filmclips from a (growing) database. Additionally it alters the speed, audio, abstraction, placement and duration of transition of each filmclip in beautiful organic random processes.

The filmclips are a personal collection of selected media gathered from the internet, TV, Hollywood films, my own filmed footage, etc. The software is also able to collect more filmclips from the internet while its constructing and presenting the film. The time delay between the traditional film editing process and film presentation/projection is reduced to the moment in time. The film is assembled in the same moment as you are seeing it. Suddenly, I am a part of the audience.’Torsten Lauschmann

To coincide with the opening of the Tolbooth, Stirling’s new venue for music and the arts, The Changing Room commissioned this new work by artist Torsten Lauschmann.   Autumn Rhythm Film is a continuation of Lauschmann’s work on a new piece of software. It is a film assembled and generated while viewed in real-time. It also responds and changes according to the viewer’s movement.

Torsten Lauschmann, 2002