In How Images Are Made I reflect on the role of the cultural producer by looking back at French avant-garde filmmakers in the 60s and 70s who understood the dissolvement of the role of the author as an integral part of their aim to lay bare the artificial construct of cinema. More specifically I look at the infamous traveling shot in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Weekend (1967) which (rumour has it) he insisted on filming it in one take without a cut. This led to a conflict with the producers as the shot became logistically very ambitious with over three-hundred tracks laid down to slide the camera over. In comparison I look at twenty-second long advertisement films that Godard has produced for the French ready-to-wear label Marithé + François Girbaud (1987) and argue that these two (historically contrasting production structures) are in fact not so different from each other.
Rotierende Zentrifugen und surrende Magnetrührer bringen die DNA zum Klingen. In Zusammenarbeit mit Daniel Gerngross vom D-BSSE (NCCR) befragen Andrea Züllig (HGK FHNW)und Heiko Schätzle (ZHdK) in ihrer Arbeit «Treulose Experimente» den Laboralltag der synthetischen Biologie. Laborgeräte und Maschinenklänge werden an optische Prüfverfahren gekoppelt, welche das Hörerlebnis kontinuierlich formen und verändern. Zur Schallwiedergabe werden Resonanzkörper aus Labormaterialien eingesetzt und eine sensorische Rückkopplung der Klänge in die Materialität des Biomolekularlabors hervorgerufen. Ein ästhetischer Rahmen
entsteht, in welchem künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Arbeitsprozesse in Abhängigkeit treten. Ein offener Raum, der dazu einlädt Irritation und gegenseitiges Unverständnis auszuhalten.
Therese, the only woman aboard the raft of Medusa, did not die at sea. An old reliquary proves her arrival to African shores and her legacy as a mythological figure with the task to tell us about the nature of water and the future of human touch.
An interdisciplinary projet that is a:
FILMIC INSTALLATION (a double screen projection + narrative objects)
FILMIC CONCERT (a projection + live sound track by the Therese Ensemble)
Made in collaboration with Christine Schmocker, Soma Mamadou, Youbi Obana.
The MA thesis is a FILMIC DIARY ABOUT THE RESEARCH OF THIS MISSING CHARACTER (a book)