“Luber Aloft” wins award in Asolo
11.09.2008
Anna-Lydia Florin’s portrayal of Swiss artist Heinrich in “Luber Aloft” (production: Freihändler Filmproduktion, Basel) won the prize for Best Soundtrack at the 27th Festival internazionale del film sull’Arte in Asolo, Italy (August 29 - September 7, 2008). This was the only prize awarded in the “Films on Art” category, thus honouring Mario Marchisella, Knut Jensen, Ramon de Marco and Daniel Dettwiler, the musicians who participated in the film as well.
The Asolo Art Film Festival, which is devoted to films on art, artist biographies, video art and computer art, schools of cinema productions, architecture and design as well as making-of productions, ranks among the most important international festivals for these genres.
The festival jury explained its selection of the soundtrack from "Luber Aloft" as follows: Suspended in the sky, above a big city, a chant is born. It doesn’t have a purpose, it’s just a soundtrack that is not aware of being what it is. So the artist’s chant gains the senses of an overwhelming lullaby, which operates regardless the coherence of harmonic sequences, due to its lightheartness, its imprecision, its total absence of aims and the complete ideological disarm, its discretion mixed up with sweet vanity. It wakes humanity up from the most anguished dreams.
Zurich, September 11. 2008
The festival jury explained its selection of the soundtrack from "Luber Aloft" as follows: Suspended in the sky, above a big city, a chant is born. It doesn’t have a purpose, it’s just a soundtrack that is not aware of being what it is. So the artist’s chant gains the senses of an overwhelming lullaby, which operates regardless the coherence of harmonic sequences, due to its lightheartness, its imprecision, its total absence of aims and the complete ideological disarm, its discretion mixed up with sweet vanity. It wakes humanity up from the most anguished dreams.
Zurich, September 11. 2008