How does Ricardo Villalobos, one of the most important DJs in electronic music, think and listen? How do Herbert von Karajan and Mussorgsky's horns get into the studio of the Chilean musician from Darmstadt? What happens to his modules and machines when they are switched off? How do the dancers react to his art? What do the people on the international stages of Ibiza want for their money? Do we actually have more sex than our parents? And how do we deal with the power of our happiness? On the trail of answers to these questions, Romuald Karmakar explores the dramaturgy of a DJ set or shows Villalobos how he conjures up new techno sounds using his modular sound system. This penetration into the artist's creative process turns the portrait into an “energetic, affective sensory intoxication” (Maximilian Linz, Cargo).
Romuald Karmakar was born in Wiesbaden in 1965 with French-Iranian roots. His filmography includes 23 films, which he realized from 1994 onwards with his own production company Pantera Film, such as Der Totmacher (1995), Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder (2004) and Hamburger Lektionen (2006). After 196 BPM (2003) and Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea (2005), Villalobos is the third part of a trilogy about electronic music and club culture.
