Length: 11:37 min
\nDance: Torsten Haase
\nCamera: Klaus D\u00f6rries
\nEditor: Nathalie Persillier
\nMusic: Lutz Glandien, Bert Wrede, G\u00fcnther Heinz, Helmut Zapf
\nCamera Assistant: Martin von B\u00fclow<\/p>\n
The video is a mixture of a dance performance (of the dancer) and a documentation (of the reality surrounding him). All the filming took place on 21 June 1996, the summer solstice. Place and time of day were chosen at random and was only made known the day before. The musicians also produced the music in the same situation. The work was created for the installation project \u201eVORTEX\u201c of Berlin video makers and musicians on the occasion of SONAMBIENTE, a Festival for Artistic sounds, Akademie der Kuenste Berlin 1996.
\nConception of VORTEX: Heiko Daxl, Gerd Rische<\/p>\n
Synopsis:
\nA video about Berlin in 4 episodes.
\nA man with a briefcase is walking though Berlin on a particular day, 21 June 1996, the summer solstice.<\/p>\n
1. Big station
\n1 to 2 o\u2019clock in the morning
\nMusic: Lutz Glandien
\nAt two o’clock in the morning he is moving himself up the steps in the gloomy, deserted suburban railway station. The only meeting is with people similar to himself. His self-confident walk is interrupted by dance-like movements.<\/p>\n
2. Asparagus season
\n9 to 10 o\u2019clock in the morning
\nMusic: Bert Wrede
\nAt nine in the morning he makes the company of people hurrying to their offices or shopping. Almost all of them are carrying briefcases or similar bags with them in a secretive way. We try, by means of a scientific method, to find out the contents of the bag. The natural movement ist stopped, the bag is enlarged as far as the smallest detail. Yet the closer we get, the less we recognise.<\/p>\n
3. One to two back
\n3 to 4 o\u2019clock in the afternoon
\nMusic: G\u00fcnther Heinz
\nHe is moving on the street in the afternoon where no cars are allowed due to building works, other there is heavy, noisy traffic all around. He is dancing forwards and backwards or in a circle or even on the spot so that the electronic montage means he can\u00b4t only encounter himselfs and the linear continuity of time and space seems to have been removed.<\/p>\n
4. Mon Capitaine
\n6 to 7 o\u2019clock in the evening
\nMusic: Helmut Zapf
\nThe setting sun leads him to a quiet idyllic place in the middle of the big city at six o\u00b4clock in the evening. The flowing movements of events and objects caught by the camera momentarily calm him down. But he is soon moving again with his restless, single-minded walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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