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TIM HAHNE is not only the founder of StereoScreen, but also a multi-talented visual artist who loves to
combine style and content with a very unique pictorial language. Tim started
his professional career in 1994, and has mainly been working as a director, but
also shoots, cuts, writes and composes music.
His film “24 HOURS in 19500 FRAMES” about the
24 Hour Nürburgring car race was an international success in 2010. Following that, the
BBC Top Gear program gave him the nickname “Car Telly Guru.” However, today’s
Armchair Travel video seems to be the short film that helped propel him into
the limelight after it was first posted to Vimeo in January 2010. Since then, The Beat Of New York has become a benchmark for modern
editing, mixed with contemporary sound design. Since its début Tim’s Vimeo site
has attracted millions of visitors, with this video itself gathering more than
600,000 views.
About The Beat of New York, Tim writes that Thomas
Noesner, the Director of Photography for StereoScreen, was in New York for a
Mercedes shoot. Right after the job, he took his camera and strolled through
the bustling streets of New York City. Tim adds, “While screening the pictures
of a drummer in the tube station, I had the idea of creating a remix of the
recorded drum sequence to use it as a soundtrack for the film. That’s when our
sound designer Toussaint came into play. We simply composed a track around the
drum beat of this guy. Watch and listen to the beat of New York!”
Want to see more? Last year, Tim co-directed the most
watched commercial in U.S. television history―the 2012 Superbowl ad for
Cadillac, which you can see here on YouTube. And make sure you visit Tim’s Vimeo page to see more of his excellent work.
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