Archive for May, 2011

Karta

31.05.2011

2011
single channel-video or 2-channel-installation
10:30 min (2 min excerpt)
HDV

Two men walk through a former hospital.The camera follows one man until he comes across the other. Their meetings vary from distant and casual to friendly and intimate. The state of the empty building changes very suddendly: it’s falling apart.

performer: Rüdiger Böß, Marco Zbinden

sounddesign: Thomas Jeker

nominated for ‘Basler Filmpreis 2009′, category ‘videoart’

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Come on into the continents II

30.05.2011

2011
single channel video installation
6:30 min (2 min excerpt)
HD

Second part of a trilogy that has been filmed in Egypt, Hong Kong and Belgium.
On the former Hong Kong city airport the camera is panning slowly in a circle. The runways were turned into bus parkings. The city is spreading out and little by little taking over. High rising buildings are about to be constructed all around. A few men and objects share this still remote area in silence.

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