About
A portrait of the artist and musician Z'EV, known for his punk era scrap metal music - how his music changed and grew and how his personal journey led him to the margins of art and the depths of heart. In addition to interviews with Z'EV, there are interviews with a community of artists who have known him since the 1970s, curators who have encountered him in the 1990s, and young people who have only heard his recorded music or read his philosophical texts.
This film is divided in chapters and organized with both a narrative and a digressive structure. The structure is topic based, not strictly chronological. The first half of the film uses archival concert footage and interviews to establish Z’EV’s place in the world of art and music. The second half uses contemporary concert footage and interviews to explore the changes that led Z’EV to a more contemplative style. The film ends with an extended concert. There is music throughout the film, but at the end, you are immersed in the music and in Z’EV’s exploration of resonance.
I like the object to have a history already
It wasn't really junk
with appearances by:
Bob Bellerue
Simone Forti
HATI
Zach Layton
Carl Stone
Ned Sublette
Johanna Went
and many others
launch of beautiful new professionally mastered DVD
at Cafe Oto, London
(on Z'EV's birthday)
screening at 7:30 pm, February 8, 2020
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/zev-heart-beat-ear-drum/
buy it here:
http://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=8225
in Torino, Italy
March 13, 2018, 9 pm
available for streaming at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/heartbeateardrum
in Gdansk, Poland
April 4, 2017, 8 pm
Instytut Kultury Miejskiej
ul. Długi Targ 39/40 80-830 Gdańsk
https://www.facebook.com/events/397496803950736/
back in Torun, Poland
November 11, 2016, 7 pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/1864159337145765/
in Bydgoszczy, Poland
October 20, 2016, 20:00
at Fonomo 5 music and film festival
http://www.wetmusic.pl/fonomo-info-ver.php?idg=3&idm=3&id=460&year=2016
special pre-release DVDs on sale here:
http://www.thisisunbound.co.uk/collections/dvds/products/heart-beat-ear-drum
in London
October 6, 2016, 7 pm
Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, London E1 4NS
This screening is the UK premiere of HEART BEAT EAR DRUM. Director ELLEN ZWEIG will be present for a Q&A; and the film will be introduced by a live performance by ANNE BEAN and RICHARD WILSON (Bow Gamelan Ensemble) who both worked with Z'EV. The Facebook event page is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/183386965403111/
in Krakow, Poland
June 27, 2016, 7:30 pm
Kino Studyjne Sfinks
http://www.kalendarznowahuta.pl/wydarzenie/hati-heart-beat-ear-drum-a-film-about-zev/
in Lodz, Poland
May 6, 2016, 8 pm
Fabryka Sztuki
http://www.fabrykasztuki.org/index.php?id=11&id_category=4
in Brussels, Belgium
December 4, 2015, 8 pm
followed by a live concert by Z'EV at 10 pm
Nova Cinema
http://www.nova-cinema.org/seances
in Torun, Poland
October 11, 2015
Transgressions Festival (Transgresje)
Kino Centrum in Centre of Contemporary Art
http://transgresje.com.pl/program/
in Tilburg, The Netherlands
Saturday, September 19, 4, 6, 8 pm
(Q&A with director after last screening)
Incubate Festival
De NWE Vorst Kleine Zaal
Willem II straat 49
Tilburg
The Netherlands
http://incubate.org/2015/line-up/491/heart-beat-ear-drum
in Berlin
September 8, 8 pm
SPEKTRUM, Bürknerstraße 12 12047
http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/nk-presents-heart-beat-ear-drum.html
European premiere at L'Etrange Festival
September 4, 2015, 9 pm
Forum des Images, Forum des Halles, 2 rue du Cinema, Paris, France
special screening
July 19, 2015, at 7 pm
Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street (between Valencia and Guerrero)
San Francisco, California
http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/heart-beat-ear-drum-a-film-about-zev/?instance_id=8244
special preview screening at
Moviate Underground Film Festival
https://www.facebook.com/events/854128441306884/
Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 4 pm
Civic Club of Harrisburg
612 N. Front Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
special preview screening at the Ende Tymes Festival
http://halfnormal.com/endetymes/
May 16, 2015, 5:00 pm
at Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman St, Ridgewood, New York
Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor
Ellen Zweig has been working in film and video since the late 90s, creating videos and video installations. During a residency at VOOM-HD Lab, she made “The Lonely Girl,” a short documentary video about a Chinese opera star living in New York City. (screened at: Anthology Film Archive, 2006; Pacific Film Archive, 2007). From 2001-2007, she created a series of video portraits of Westerners who had some relationship to China and several installations (at DDM Warehouse, Shanghai; The CUE Foundation, New York) that dealt with her attempts to understand China and to learn Chinese. Since 2007, she has been working on an homage to the documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens and his last film, “Une Histoire du Vent," filming as Ivens did in China. From 2007-2013, she documented Z'EV's concerts, collecting and editing materials for the feature length video, "Heart Beat Ear Drum," her first documentary feature.