Film Networks: Villalobos

>>Germany 2009, 120 min >>Written and directed by: Romuald Karmakar

How does Ricardo Villalobos, one of electronic music’s most acclaimed DJs, think and hear? How do Herbert von Karaja and Mussorgsky’s horns end up in the studio of this Chilean musician from Darmstadt? What happens to his modules and machines long after they’ve been switched off? How do people respond to his DJ-skills at Berlin’s famous club Berghain, the temple of techno? What do people expect for their money when they go to the international stages of Ibiza? Do we actually have more sex than our parents? And how do we handle the power of our luck? After his films 196 bpm and Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Villalobos is the last part of Romuald Karmakar’s free trilogy dealing with the aspects of electronic music and club culture in the first decade of our new century. “My first live experience of Ricardo Villalobos as a DJ was in 2004. He played incredibly long tracks that catapulted not only thousands of people in the club, but also himself into another time zone. He lived with a passion what we could hear, a kind of tireless call to defend, by all means necessary, the reduction of our lives to the mere structure and beat of pop songs. To transform one second into a completely different story, that’s his art that I wanted to track.” (Romuald Karmakar)

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