SOS - International Festival of Performing Arts&Media Ludwigsburg

Stage on Screen/Screen on Stage - International Festival of
Performing Arts&Media Ludwigsburg

SOS
- the abbreviated title of our new festival may initially cause some
surprise, after all the initials stand for "Save Our Souls", a maritime
distress signal. However this association is not as odd as it may seem,
for one thing that the SOS Festival should have is soul.

Illustrious
names such as Wim Wenders, Irmin Schmidt or the
Catalonian performance group La Fura dels Baus are a reflection
of that.



This unique festival is an interface between theatre,
music and media. It will be held every two years, each time with a
different focus. In 2010 the focus will be on music. Following the Motto
"Music on Screen" filmmakers, media representatives, musicians,
theatre people and directors as well as students and interested
non-professionals will consider this complex subject in all its
diversity in workshops, podium and panel discussions.



The evening
events in the Akademiehof (free entry) will
most definitely be a highlight - a feast for eyes and ears. For example
the opening gala which, thanks to the audio-visual performance "Moments
of Sound and Motion", will give the Academy courtyard a special
flair or the unconventional audio-visual presentations created by
students from the ADK and the Film Academy especially for the SOS. A
glamorous film music gala in honour
of Irmin Schmidt will be a
particular highlight. Irmin Schmidt has made a name for himself as one
of the founding members of the German Electronic rock band Can,
composing music for both the band and directors such as Wim Wenders,
Michael Verhoeven or Hans W. Geißendörfer. The director Wim Wenders will be
making a laudatory speech.



With Stage on Screen/Screen
on Stage - International Festival of Performing Arts & Media
Ludwigsburg, we are - to use another nautical term - setting sail
for new horizons. And perhaps just as in Shakespeare's tempest, we will
land on an island full of wonder and magic.



Stage on
Screen/Screen on Stage - International Festival of Performing Arts &
Media Ludwigsburg, as this three-day event is officially called, has
been initiated by the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg,
the Academy for Performing Arts
Baden-Wuerttemberg ADK, the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele
and the Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH.




We extend our thanks to the Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung
(foundation) for its financial support.