Market Screening: Play it again! Looking for Loops

This one-hour documentary not only investigates the causes, but also the effects: What is repetition, what is variation and what is a loop? What is actually being ‘repeated’? Does repetition have feel-good or rather anger potential? Music ethnologists, neuroscientists, composers and performers search for answers to these questions.

Using selected works as a spotlight, the aggregate states of repetition are traced and, above all, listened to. Concert scenes alternate with dance scenes in which repetition sets the beat, supplemented by world music archive material.

The eternal return of the same becomes a stylistic device in itself. The narrative strands are mostly cyclical: Short stories about repetitive routines become loops and playful cartoons tell humorous never-ending stories. Loop collages run through the film like a rondo, associatively taking into account non-musical manifestations of the endless loop.

• Genre: Music/Documentary

• Screening Length: 52'

• Name of presenting company: EuroArts