Daydream Mechanics V Sketch 3 (excerpt)

While in Montréal, working on the finishing touches of "Liaisons" (NFB 2005), I was invited to a concert given by the Quatuor Bozzini (the cellist of that quatuor, Isabelle Bozzini, had participated in the recording of Liaisons' music).The quatuor performed Michael Oesterle's composition, "Daydream Mechanics V."
This music (and that interpretation) really grabbed me, it was, in musical form, very close to some of the elements I was exploring in my own work.
I bought the CD ("Portrait Montréal" from "actuellecd" CQB 0401, 2004) and made the first 12-minute run-through in less than 10 days (I started the first sketch with/from a few frames pulled from "Liaisons").
Trying to explore and make visible the "poetic" space that can exist between images and music is at the heart of this piece (as is the case with most of my work): when the music and the images are too close, the discourse flattens and the experience becomes dull, or can even become invasive (as is the case with so many commercial pieces). When music and images are too far apart, their dialogue snaps and renders the exercise pointless.
The film explores (and hopefully makes visible) that dialogue, it ebbs and flows with that evolving elusive relationship.
All the "repetitive" elements are treated as "the-same-yet-different," which is one of the things I like most in that music.
This film has been presented by film and animation festivals all over the world, from South Korea to Australia, Lebanon, Denmark, Belgium, the UK, the US and Canada, with many other countries and places in between.