User:Xabache/Floyd Reich

Floyd Reich is the franchise title of a Sublime Sync produced trilogy of independent films created by Thaltruistic. This experimental genre of synchronizing film to music features visual material from one source paired with music from a second unrelated source placed together into a single film displaying their native similarities. The name Floyd Reich is a merging of the names of the two sources of material this work is based on which are films from Germany's Third Reich era, and the psychedelic rock music of Pink Floyd. The purpose of this work is to create the illusion that these films were recomposed with a modern soundtrack to create a more appreciable environment for bringing new audiences towards an otherwise outdated but still visually spectacular series of films in order that the viewer might acquire a wider perspective of the history they cover.

Synchronizations
The idea of a synchronization or pairing between otherwise unrelated works is an illusion of a willing mind. When viewing this material the brain accepts what synchronizations work and disregards what does not blend at all. A more accurate description of an intentional sync would be an non-sync for the work spends far more time unaligned than aligned, however the same relative measurement could be said about any other form of synchronization or even official music videos. The mind likes what the mind likes, defining what we like is simple. We judge what is good or not based on the initial level of attention it draws and the enjoyable memories it fosters. It is in the defiance of the odds, the over coming of mere randomness that the greater works of synchronization are defined. A skeptic would point out that any video placed side by side with any music will inherently produce some coincidental synchronization. Where as a notable synchronization is achieved when the randomness is replaced with predictability and the unity of the materials involved becomes undeniable.

There are as many ideas of what a synchronization means as there are synchronizations to be watched. From the view the Floyd Reich puts forth a synchronization must be based upon a single pairing point and the works must be comprehensive and sequential. Where many other syncs cut, match and ignore vast tracts of the official works, the Floyd Reich uses whole films and whole albums, uncut and unmodified in any way and where the shorter of the two works runs out as often the case is when pairing feature length films to albums then the next produced album is lined up as though there were no break between the two and it were the next part of the whole. The Floyd Reich goes to great efforts to put this definition forth in an undefined genre as the truest measure of an orthodox synchronization.

There are also numerous other quantities that a skeptic could site in this field as being not reproducible such as run speed or length of varying releases of official works which the Floyd Reich does not provide any answer for. This lack of an answer is perhaps hope to invite the viewer to simply enjoy what is, knowing that where every possible the Floyd Reich was built with full unmodified original works from the most widely distributed official versions available.

Storyline
This work was never intended to become a trilogy, it started as a "what if" idea and grew into a complete story. The Floyd Reich is the story of one mans domination over all he could reach, it covers the founding of his power and the first cracks in his facade. From commanding fields of men to his ideal of perfection to witnessing the seeds of his downfall in athletic competition the Floyd Reich tells the other story of Adolf Hitler and his socialist dream for Germany and the world, a story without serious or condemning narration to get in the way of what is more obvious when viewed first hand. It displays the glory, the triumphs, the majesty, the madness, the zealotry, the mechanisms of control and the price of perfection. This evenhanded feature length trilogy covers the heights of Nazism's glory and the reality of its construct.

Summary
Produced between 2006 and 2008, The three works that make up the Floyd Reich are Triumph of The Wall, The Eternal Dark Side and Ummagummolympia. Floyd Reich is the first ever trilogy of synchronizations. All films are based upon a single synchronization point.

The premier film in the production order is Triumph of The Wall. This sync features visually Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph des Willens (1935) synchronized to the soundtrack of Roger Waters film Pink Floyd The Wall (1982).

The second film in the production order is The Eternal Dark Side. This sync features visually Fritz Hippler's film Der Ewige Jude (1940) synchronized to the music from Pink Floyd's albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and the following album Wish You Were Here - side A (1975).

The final film in the production order of this trilogy is Ummagummolympia. This sync features visually part one of Leni Riefenstahl's Film Olympia (1938) synchronized to the music from Pink Floyd's album A Saucerful Of Secrets (1968) and the following albums Soundtrack from the Film More (1969) and the first of the double album of Ummagumma (1969).

Material Significance
On the choice of films the author Thaltruistic often seen posting on forums as Xabache was quoted saying:"'My choice of films was really dictated by their prominence in my own memory and little else, while i would like to say i chose Leni's films due to her wonderful talent it wasn't nearly so academic as that. If pressed to name three third Reich films i would have named these and in this order and doubt i could name a forth. funnier fact is i didn't like anyone of these films until i remade them, and now i cant see enough of them.'."

Releases
These films were released on BitTorrent and video sharing sites between 2007 and 2009. There is no official version of this work commercially available, at this time. All films are available for free online.

Other Synchronizations
Not a new idea synchronizing film and music or using Pink Floyd as the foundation, Pink Syncs as they are commonly known have been around for sometime and are quite numerous. An unofficial list of known works in a presumed order of appearance is as follows:
 * 2001: A Floyd Odyssey
 * Alice On The Wall
 * Dark Side of the Rainbow
 * Floyd Reich
 * Triumph Of The Wall
 * The Eternal Dark Side
 * Ummagummolympia