Apr 19, 2011

Lago di Garda w/ Bilderbuch

January 28 – Januar 30, 2011. Morgnaga di Gardone Riviera, Italy. I had a meeting with the band Bilderbuch on Wednesday, January 15th, if I recall correctly. I had known the band for some months, we met each other at live shows and the singer Maurice and I had gone out together two or three times when he called me to ask, if I wanted to do the photos and artwork for their new album. The night before I had the meeting with Bilderbuch and the label, I went to Maurice‘ place to listen to the album for the first time. I was pretty hammered when I arrived at his place and he played the record at a really high level on some crappy speakers in his huge living room. We listened to this loud music for 40 minutes or so and I got kinda dizzy as a result of the intense music, the volume and the alcohol. The first thing I thought was that I wanted to do something really calm and peaceful with the photos and artwork as it was all so hectic and brutal somehow (in a good way though).

I had lost my license a few weeks earlier and planned on going to Italy to renew that eventually. That’s when I thought about the lake of Garda (that’s kinda close to my hometown) and its beautiful west side that isn’t quite as famous as the east side as it doesn’t have as many beaches to easily go into the water. It’s mostly big rocks. Anyways, we had this meeting, I told them my idea about driving to the lake of Garda (also that they would have to drive m car as I didn’t have a license), they were down for the road trip and we started a week later on Friday at 6 p.m. We had three extremely intense days, a combination of almost no sleep and working all day. On Saturday night we celebrated our last night (which was actually also the second night, but well) in the beautiful apartment on a hill right by the lake and decided to shoot a music video to their song „Venezianischer Spiegel“ after we had dropped the previous video idea.We started working right away, it was 3 a.m. It was a weird night as we had to do the whole thing over and over again (it was a one-shot), I started to think that there was a man watching us in the trees close to the place we were filming at, Peter was sure that he had heard a wolf right next to him and yeah…

Some hours later we got up , shot for some more hours, had dinner with my parents in Bolzano and drove back to Vienna, which took us almost all night. When we arrived we took some more pictures and went for another drink. After that we saw each other almost ever day and night as the deadline was so close and I still had to do the artwork, the press photo selection and editing, some other design stuff and the video. It was a very intense and extremely special time for me. If you wanna see the video, look it up on YouTube (Bilderbuch – Venezianischer Spiegel), some press pictures are on my Flickr, on my website and on the website of their label (inkmusic.at). Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

Lago di Garda with Bilderbuch, © Christian Pitschl

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Mrz 23, 2011

Made Of Gold

January 10th – January 15th, 2011. Berlin. I went to Berlin to start recording a new album for my project Chris And The Other Girls. I first met Nikolai Potthoff in September ’10, he liked my stuff so we decided to work together. We got along very well, it was a really intense, but amazing week. We basically spent five whole days in the studio doing nothing but listening to music, playing, trying, recording… These are some of the pictures I took. The others look pretty much the same, so… Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

Made Of Gold, © Christian Pitschl

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Sep 17, 2009

Chris And The Other Girls recording session

August 24 – 28, 2009. Vienna. We recorded a cover version of the song „I Wanna Know What Love Is“ for the sampler I was talking about in the last post. Here are some pictures I shot. Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

Chris And The Other Girls Recording Session on film. © Christian Pitschl

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Mai 10, 2009

Bowling

May 1, 2009. Vienna. We were out bowling last Friday. Again half frame pictures. Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

Bowling on 35mm half frame. © Christian Pitschl

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Mai 07, 2009

Party: Spring Edition Beatpatrols Festival

April 30, 2009. Vienna, Krieau. Superfi’s Conny invited us to a party at the Krieau. I took my half frame camera (that’s why there are always two pictures abreast) with me and shot these. The funny thing is Daniel was there as well and took almost the same pictures. Check them out at danielgebhart.com. Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

Beatpatrols on 35mm. © Christian Pitschl

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Mai 06, 2009

Relaxing

April 26, 2009. Vienna, Lobau. I had just come back from our last movie trip and we decided to go to some lake on Sunday to relax as the weather was beautiful and all of us pretty exhausted. In the end the weather sucked at the time we got out, but we still had a blast. Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

Relaxing on medium format. Benjamin Pitschl. © Christian Pitschl

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Apr 06, 2009

Kleine Fische movie premiere week: The Days

March 17 – March 23, 2009. Graz, Vienna, Vienna, Hartberg, Graz. These are the day shots, we spent most time in my car… Medium format are yet to come… Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

Kleine Fische movie premieres on 35mm. Sabrina Reiter & Michael Steinocher. Shot by Christian Pitschl.

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Apr 01, 2009

Kleine Fische movie premiere week: The Nights

March 17 – March 23, 2009. Graz, Vienna, Vienna, Hartberg, Graz. On March 17 the movie I composed the soundtrack for had its premiere at the Diagonale in Graz/Austria. That was the first day of an awesome week of premieres people who were involved in making the film spent together. These are the night shots, day shots are gonna be up next. Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

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Mrz 12, 2009

Video shoot: Catog – Ready If You Are

March 1, March 6, 2009. Vienna. Marco Antoniazzi, the director of the movie „Kleine Fische“ that I composed the score to, wrote a storyboard to a video clip for my band Chris And The Other Girls‘ song Ready If You Are. As that song is the title track of the movie the production company Novotny & Novotny produced the video clip and got the actress Sabrina Reiter to be in it as well. Long story… Check out the pictures of those two days. Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

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Jan 31, 2009

Roadtrip to Munich: N O T W I S T !

January 18, 2009. Vienna – Munich. I heard about the Notwist shows in Munich in October or so and immediately decided to go there as it was gonna be one of their rare orchestra shows. Just a few days after my friend Alex, who works for the Notwist sent me a postcard from San Francisco where they were playing that night. I wrote him an email about the Munich shows and he told me, that I could bring along my friends and that he would put us on the guest list. So we got into the car and started our road trip. Click the photo to see the whole series, click a photo in the “series view” to see it in even bigger size.

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