The Bath House is a cinematic re-imagination of a 1930s Russian constructivist play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky and directed by Vesevolod Meyerhold. The work is set at the modernist Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh, Scotland.
A fragmented view of a city provides this poetic examination of disclosing and withholding, what is and isn't seen, and once it is seen, how is it read?
15 seconds of a movie - classic (Citizen Kane), with Orson Welles holding an election speech, are deconstructed with the help of a computer and a laserdisc. What ermerges was there all the time: absurdity. (VideoFest '90)
04302011 is a five minute, 40 second video of 38 New Yorkers who visited the artist's studio during a Museum of Arts and Design Open Studio residency, to have their portrait made in 3D. The result is an identity parade of textured 3D scans of their faces, rotating in and out of the light. The glitchy, fragmented look...
By way of some simple diagrams and a number of fragments from films and documentaries, Parallel Worlds not only demonstrates the existence of parallel worlds, but at the same time proves that it is possible to place oneself therein. Hereby not so much a physical displacement is meant but rather a mental displacement.
ln a work from 1987, Mother Father is Dead, Rotraut Pape and Andreas Coerper reworked a Dallas story in a scene like some video clinic of the future, a technocratic vision of soap opera. Key elements—talking heads, stealthy sideways glances, confessional language of magazine psychology, hyperbolic musical punctuation, filming within...
In reference to the trailer of Psycho (USA 1960), narrated in German by Alfred Hitchcock himself, a gardener with a chainsaw guides us through the premises of the Herbert Gerisch Foundation in Schleswig-Holstein 51 years later. The visit ends, just like in the original trailer..., in a bathroom.
Buenos Aires - tango, ear-splitting traffic noise and a treasure trove for litter. Buenos Aires Recyclers portraits the cultural, social and urban fabrics of this city by means of experimental animation. The viewer is guided...
Perfect stop-motion animation. “Location”, the desk. The singer Karl Schwamberger (Laokoongruppe) performs as an animated figure on a stack of post-its, as the lyrics to Walzerkönig roll past on a till roll. Alongside there is a video within a video...