For the documentation „Fireland Detroit - A city burns out.“ I had the honour of composing the film score in 2016. The film was made for BILD and B.Z. and produced with the RIAS 1st Digital Media Award excellent.
The documentary accompanies firefighters in Detroit on their missions in a city that has been characterised by economic decline, vacancy and decay for years. Burning houses are part of everyday life there - not as a spectacular event, but as a symptom of a profound structural crisis.
My task in the film music was to give these images a sonic space without commenting on or dramatising them. The music should not explain, but accompany: restrained, atmospheric and close to the reality of the people on location. Instead of classical dramaturgy, the focus was on the feeling of emptiness, tension and silent threat - a city that is slowly burning out.
The film was made under extraordinary conditions. Author Lucas Negroni and producer Anika Giese worked with minimal technology and maximum proximity. This immediacy also characterises the film - and was also the benchmark for the musical design.
The jury of the RIAS 1st Digital Media Award honoured the project with the words:
„The author Lucas Negroni and his producer Anika Giese give the German audience exciting, breathtaking insights into the ‚burning houses‘ of Detroit. Technically and in terms of content, the film is a masterpiece. ‚Up close and personal‘ is no empty phrase here.“
For me, this work is an example of how film music can develop a strong effect even with reduced means - if it consistently places itself at the service of the story.
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