THE SOUND OF COLOGNE

GERMANY | 2022 | COLOR | DCP | 93’ | ENGLISH, GERMAN

A little journey to Cologne, a big tour around the sound of a city that defined electronic music since the ‘50s. A parade of names that made a difference, from Karlheinz Stockhausen to CAN and from KOMPAKT and A-Muzik to today’s apparent renaissance. With its fast-paced rhythm and information in techno bpm, Kristina Schippling’s documentary explores the probably most wounded city of World War II, how its pragmatism defeated romanticism and brought about this electronic mosaic and mostly: how certain young people decided, and still do, perhaps to a historic degree, that the merriment of creation, the joy of expression and pure fun are more important than profit. I.D.

DIRECTOR: Kristina Schippling
SCREENWRITER: Sarah Schygulla
DoP: Nicole Wegner, Kristina Schippling
MUSIC: Markus Aust
EDITOR: Nicole Wegner

KRISTINA SCHIPPLING
German director living in Berlin. She studied German Language and Literature, Psychology, Philosophy and Performing Arts in Wittemberg, Braunschweig and Berlin, before studying Direction and Performance with Hendrik Martz. Having produced and directed many shorts, this is her feature film debut.

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2022 The Sound Of Cologne