Work > Films
Serpent Scan
(short film, 2023, 6:16)
Audio visualisers, swirling gases from the atmosphere of Jupiter and movements across the skin of bodies combine to form a film-sigil.
A film by Johnny Welch
Music: Halv Drøm
Performances: Olyana Skrjabina and Jessica Proost
Makeup: Maggie Ioannidou
Aurum
(short film, 2018, 31:00)
Exploiting Aleister Crowley’s Liber 777 as structuring device; each image in the film combines to form a sigil. The performers evoke Chthonian rhythms to magnify intent. The music drives a hypnotic path through suspension of the mind into the realm of the senses. The first version of the film was performed live with Halv Drøm as a double-channel projection on Super 8. The performance included several painted loops consisting of nail polish, bodily fluids, charcoal, chalk and emulsion scratches. In the second version, the film material was digitised to accompany a 31 minute mix of Halv Drøm’s tracks. The format was expanded to include a third channel in the background. Each channel loops at a different point in time, resulting in various synchronicities both in image and sound.
A film by Johnny Welch
Music: Halv Drøm
Performers: Valentin Tszin, Olyana Skrjabina, Helena, Saxon Jorgenson
Makeup (Helena): Sasha Noir Noir
Styling (Helena): Thea B. Adora
Telecine: Kornmanufaktur Berlin
Discharge Working II
(short film, 2018, 4:38)
I. Darkness: Flesh hate breeding half slaves. Division. Hell adores infinite fools.
A. Blood: Dissolve fear beyond Eyes. Harmony. New Priest kills the Old.
O. Sun: Drinking Fire of Fire. Undulations. Burning in Splendrous Desire.
A film by Johnny Welch
16mm Scanning: Labor Berlin
Soundtrack Master: Saxon Jorgensen
Discharge Working I
(short film, 2017, 5:16)
In the celluloid mind a memory is cut. Obsession loops as the machine remembers the body. In Mental Exorcise words are emptied. Repeated to forget, permitted to decay.
A film by Johnny Welch
Cast: August Skipper & Luna Vassarotti
Voice: Olyana Skrjabina
S8 Negative Processing: Nano Lab Australia
S8 Print: Andec Filmtechnik Berlin
16mm Post Production: Johnny at Labor Berlin
Telecine: Screenshot Berlin
Sonic Intangible
(short film, 2016, 15:24)
Three voices from the European electronic music scene explore the unseen shadow side of the sonic realm. Each part is accompanied by a dreamlike vignette shot in the cities they occupy.
A film by Johnny Welch
Featuring: Max Leonard Hitchings, Zoé Zanias & Andy Bolus
Music by Amnertia, Keluar & Evil Moisture
Sound Master: Guy Fenech
Film Processing & Telecine: Nano Lab Australia
Special thanks: Luna Vassarotti, August Skipper, Iris Veverka, Tim Drage.
Mind Loop: Ghost Trail
(short film, 2015, 5:31)
Footage from an abandoned Mental Asylum in Australia and field recordings from a haunted Boiler Room in France are combined in fitful, liminal rhythms.
A film by Johnny Welch
Film Processing & Telecine: Nano Lab Australia
Special thanks to Lazer Quest (Paris)