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Julian Krätzig

Following his videos for Plages Des Casernes and La Mission Commence, Peter Haueis continues his cinematic music video narrative for Felix Müller, aka The Offline.The video for Un Bout De Chemin is inspired by 1980's American indie films, and dives into another fragment of the composer's journey, raising the question as to whether he is on permanent vacation or troubled by demons which lurk around every corner.&nbsp;In the concept,&nbsp;The Offline arrives by boat in the port of Hamburg and wanders around the city's infamous St. Pauli district. He is confronted by a gambling deadline as he searches for a better place - a vicious encounter from which he escapes to find his own rhythm while dancing on the rooftops of the city.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]"Un bout de chemin, which means something like a bit of a journey, felt right for the rolling rhythm and the driven cello, but also in terms of the dramatic structure of the track," explains Müller.&nbsp;"For me it felt like someone is pursuing a goal and this track tells a part of the journey. The name came about when I had the order of the album ready.”&nbsp;The video encompasses that feeling, proposing a story that feels strangely offbeat, as if 'fallen out of time' as they say in Germany. Another terrific, stirring visual collaboration between&nbsp;Müller and Haueis.

Peter Haueis

Tom Pickford

The Offline

Timor Litzenberger

Deepmatter

Root Records

The Offline 'Un Bout De Chemin' by Peter Haueis

The-Offline-'Un-Bout-De-Chemin'-by-Peter-Haueis

Peter Haueis directs an offbeat black and white film for German cinematic music project The Offline, imbued with the experimental spirit of New Wave and No Wave&nbsp;cinema.&nbsp;Haueis helms&nbsp;an absorbing piece of purist old school cinema - with elements of absurd humour,&nbsp;film noir, and silent comedy&nbsp;- for the jazzy instrumental La Mission Commence,&nbsp;set on a deserted beach. Felix Müller - the composer and photographer behind The Offline -&nbsp;lands ashore and begins to get in the mood to be creative. But he's dogged by an annoying trilby-wearing nemesis, who appears in the dunes to dog his every move.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Müller conceived the idea for The Offline, updating film score music of the 60s and 70s, whilst travelling on Atlantic coastline in the south of France with his film camera, capturing beach life on film. He returned&nbsp;to Hamburg and began started writing songs as the sonic counterpart to the analogue visuals.“Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by the soundtracks from the 60s and 70s, and I always wanted to make an album in the film score direction," Müller has said.&nbsp;"I wrote about 30 demos, kicked half of it and stuck to the ones that felt right in the dramaturgical structure of the ‘movie'. Interestingly the main theme was set really early on while writing the album, which made the writing process much easier.”In effect, Müller has composed a soundtrack for a movie that was never made. And now he and Haueis have starting making&nbsp;that movie...&nbsp;

France

Alen Jelic

Instrumental

Film music

Alternative

Jazz

The Offline 'La Mission Commence' by Peter Haueis

The Offline - La mission commence (Official Video)

Peter Haueis directs a bewitching promo for The Offline's Plages Des Casernes.&nbsp;The video celebrates a sense of analogue nostalgia, which complements the artist's atmospheric, cinematic soundscapes.&nbsp;Several techniques were used to create the&nbsp;melancholic,&nbsp;dreamlike aesthetic - Super8 material filmed by the artist in France was screened on Sony Trinitron vintage TV Sets, creating vivid, raw images. MiniDV cameras were then plugged into the TV sets, with&nbsp;video&nbsp;feedback and CRT TV-effects generated until The Offline loses himself in the looping images.&nbsp;

Sarah Trostorff

Khoi Chau

Mograde Berlin

Felix Müller

Atmospheric

The Offline 'Plages Des Casernes' by Peter Haueis

The Offline - Plage des Casernes (Official Video)

Peter Haueis celebrates the early days of rave culture in a way that resonates with current times in&nbsp;the nostalgic promo for DJ Durbin.&nbsp;We live in strange times,&nbsp;where clubbing has now been everything from a health risk to something completely criminal. DJ Durbin and&nbsp;director Peter Haueis considered the questions: How can a club track be situated in the midst of a pandemic?Haueis found his answers in the atmosphere of the abandoned and rainy Port of Hamburg, which he aestheticizes with Nineties rave tristesse to convey the rollercoaster of emotions that has accompanied clubbers in recent months.[imgtoken data:1]“I knew the video had to be raw and impulsive," Haueis noted.&nbsp;"I came across excerpts from Rainald Götz's book Rave&nbsp;from 1998. Some aspects reflected exactly the feelings that, for me, made up the track in the course of a club night. It's about losing oneself in a free world of the underground, deep in the bass. It's about that moment, when you think you can dissolve yourself into the pulses of the strobe.”DJ Durbin agrees. “I wanted to raise a playful club bomb that constantly twists and turns and yet somehow holds together.”&nbsp;The resulting visual is soaked in a '90s VHS aesthetic, and has an anachronistic vibe which bridges the gap between the present day and the origins of rave culture.&nbsp;

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