Guests
Five projections in a dark room. The camera roams over scrubby vegetation at night. Men appear, mostly old faces. They look up, turn their heads, look at us, one of them screws up his mouth, another stares down in a blind rage. The sound track suggests a slow pulse, interspersed with random noises and shreds of music. Computer-generated and organic structures overlay the pictures like a thicket. Digital image processing has dissected the images and rearranged their components. The faces have been distorted, torn to shreds and overlaid with picture disturbances. Time and again the pictures threaten to disintegrate. The expressions on the men’s faces no longer reflect real emotions, but are mired in an artificial ambivalence of somnambulistic absorption and latent aggression.
With René Haberthür
Peter Leopold
Erwin Müller
Gerd Spitz
Andreas Wälchli
Realisation: Beat Brogle and Max Philipp Schmid
DOP: Thomas Isler
Sounds: Silvia Buonvicini, Knut Jensen
Production: Stella Händler
Exhibition
“view over 6 continents” Christine Zufferey and guests: Beat Brogle, Max Philipp Schmid, Knut & Silvy
Exhibition Kunsthaus Baselland 12. Oktober bis 16. November 2003