Calling for Music Documentaries, Artistic Films about Music and Musicians, and Music Videos

Deadline for the submission of music documentaries, artistic films about music and musicians, and music videos for the programme of films featured as part of SEE THE SOUND at SoundTrack_Cologne 6.0: 15 September 20009

Since its inception, SoundTrack_Cologne 6.0 - the German conference on music and sound in film and the media - has developed into the leading platform for music in film and the media in the German-speaking world.

In 2008, with SEE THE SOUND, SoundTrack_Cologne widened the scope of the conference with an extensive programme of films, in order to bring together the best examples of combining music and film. As part of the film programme, the series "Bilder zum Hören - Images to be heard" and "Cutting Edge", among others, are dedicated specifically to the genre of artistic films about music and musicians, and music documentaries.

"Hear the Pictures! See the Music!" When Walt Disney formulated this slogan in 1940 for "Fantasia", then the most elaborate animation film ever made, pictures, movement and music were brought as close together as never before in their history. The economic failure of this monumental film reignited an old art-historical debate: Can visual art offer a counterpart for musical experience? Can the structures of music be depicted visually?