Klangwelt Kreis Steinfurt

Sound Film HD AUDIO/VIDEO, 42'44''   2026

Filmstills

The sound film Klangwelt Kreis Steinfurt is an audiovisual portrait of the district of Steinfurt. It was developed through an almost two-year period of exploration and artistic research into the “acoustic DNA” of this extensive, predominantly rural region.

Through shifts and artistic composition, sounds from one municipality are combined with images from another, and vice versa. From the familiar, a new perspective on the surroundings emerges. In this way, new connections are formed between places, while at the same time moments of irritation arise and questions are directed at the respective locations. The sound film sharpens awareness of where one is, what one hears, and how – or whether – the sounds can be clearly assigned at all, and what story they tell.

Only through the interrelation of individual sounds does the acoustic image of the region take shape. In this open process, hidden qualities of places come into focus: their historical layers, their topographical conditions, the role of people, and those characteristics that define a region beyond clear categorisations. Through the deliberate shifting of image and sound, the 24 locations are interwoven into an audiovisual spatial network that allows for multiple readings.

https://www.klangwelt-kreissteinfurt.de/en