Category Archives: Video

Playing Field

Moscow / Russia Playing Field / Video Video

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Over the course of one year, this video series (22 parts) shows always the same section: a playing field with a climbing contraption, behind that a school and a residential block, as well as a couple of trees, recorded through a window with a fixed camera. The horizontal pathway together with the vertical trees and the left window frame form a raster. The movement of the window pane causes the reflection to wander, whereby the things move and the people, who at a direct view walk along the pathway, seem to go into the opposite direction and to disappear. Thus, astounding presumptions, synchronisms and repetitions are generated, dependent on the position of the reflecting window wing. The video sequences start and end with the images of the inner surface of the window wing, which upon opening and closing, in a close proximity to the lens, generate a broad black field.

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Красная Линия / Red Line

Moscow / Russia Place / Video Video

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In the Russian language the terms ‘красивый’ (beautiful) and ‘красный’ (red) are related. Yet, in German ‘the colour red’ is often understood as a kind of warning. Furthermore, in both cultures ‘the colour red’ bears a political significance.
The video shows a long panel of red tulle, which has been spread out across a pathway and over a free, snow-covered space. The pedestrians cross the red line without hesitation. The crosswind sculpts the delicate material into calligraphic figures and finally blows it off the image.

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Красная Линия  Red Line  Rote Linie
Moscow 2009
Apple HDV / Quicktime Movie H.264 / 1920×1080 / 25p
Mute. 25 min. Loop

Almaty House

Almaty / Kazakhstan Houses / Video Video

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Das Wohnhaus in Almaty – mit feststehender Kamera durch ein Fenster des gegenüberliegenden Hauses aufgenommen – erscheint sowohl in direkter Sicht als auch in den Spiegelungen der bewegten Fensterflügel des Wohnraums und des davorliegenden Balkons, in denen sich das Haus verschiebt, sodass immer andere Partien der Fassade und sehr unterschiedliche Fenstergestaltungen sichtbar werden.
Die Wohnungen des Plattenbaus sind im Besitz der Bewohner, die ihre Fenster nach eigenen Möglichkeiten gestalten. Daraus ergibt sich eine differenzierte Fenster- und Fassadenstruktur.

ALMATY_house #05  ALMATY_haus #05 
Almaty. Kazakhstan 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. 12 min 12 sec. Loop

 

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ALMATY_house #01  ALMATY_haus #01
Almaty. Kazakhstan 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. 13 min 52 sec. Loop

 

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ALMATY_house #03  ALMATY_haus #03 
Almaty. Kazakhstan 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. 10 min 30 sec. Loop

Half Pipe

Dresden / Germany Video Window / Video

A half pipe is filmed from a high window. The reflection, separated from the direct view by the vertical window frame, seemingly completes the ramp’s shape. Yet, the window reflects the part outside of the image, and the boy on his BMX bike performing looping manoeuvres leads continuously back to the divided image.

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Half Pipe  Halfpipe    
Dresden 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. 10 min 30 sec. Loop

YES / NO

Dresden / Germany Video Window / Video

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This series of nine video works has been created in 2008 in Dresden at the former Eastern German state enterprise ROBOTRON, an industrial prefabricated construction of office buildings. The air circulation and the easy manoeuvrability of the window wings set the mirror images of the window panes into a permanent swaying motion.
The nine video sequences feature a similar image build-up: The window frame runs vertically through the image. The window frame separates the direct view towards the opposite building façade from the reflection.
The views are rigidly structured by the windows’ raster of the building. The focal lengths vary. Besides the aspect of moving reflections, the whole video series documents the renovation works on the building: the aged condition of the concrete façade, the scaffolding in front, the covering of the windows, the works on the house and the freshly painted appearance. In one of the windows a skeleton dummy has been placed next to other objects, which are visible in addition to the movement.

 

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JA/NEIN. Ansichten 1, 4
YES/NO. Views 1, 4
Dresden 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. Each 7 min. Loop

Perspective Columbus / Ohio I

Columbus / Ohio / USA Video Window / Video

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Eine geschlossene Sichtblende strukturiert das Videobild horizontal. Das langsame Öffnen der Sichtblende erscheint zu Anfang wie ein Bildflimmern und lässt dann allmählich schemenhaft die Stadt erkennen, deren horizontale Straßenführung sich in die Sichtblende einordnet, sodass der dreidimensionale Stadtraum zur Fläche wird. Fahrzeuge scheinen zwischen den Lamellen der Sichtblende zu fahren. Die Aufwärtsbewegung beim langsamen Öffnen der Sichtblende korrespondiert mit den Bewegungen Außen. Das Spiel zwischen Zweidimensionalität und Dreidimensionalität endet im freien Blick in die Ferne. 

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Perspective Columbus /Ohio II
Ausblick Columbus/Ohio II
Columbus/Ohio 2007
Digital Video / DVD PAL
Mute. 24 min 7 sec. Loop

 

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Perspective Columbus / Ohio I
Ausblick Columbus / Ohio I
Columbus/Ohio 2007
Digital Video / DVD PAL
Mute. 21 min 36 sec. Loop

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Haus Setup

Frankfurt am Main / Germany Video Window / Video

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The perspective from the window towards a house and the reflection of this house in the window pane are framed in equal parts in the format of a video image. With the movement of the window pane the reflection of the house is repositioned on the glass surface. The space of the picture changes gradually, and new building constellations appear within the image detail.
By opening and closing the shutters that are installed in front of the window, different parts of the house are successively obscured and again released. Determined by the tempo of the engines of the shutters, the architectural space constantly changes also. All processes of opening and closing and the possibility of the reflection are combined to a sixty minute long sequence of image space- and perspective possi­bilities.

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Venetian Blind

Frankfurt am Main / Germany Video Window / Video

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An office at Frankfurt’s East Harbour: By opening the window in one corner of the room, the view of the other window is overlaid. In the opened window a building of the harbour area is reflected, through the closed window an industrial landscape is visible. The video shows the overlaying.
During the recording time, the venetian blinds in front of both windows are automatically raised and lowered as well as the opening angle of their slats modified. The varying angles allow a view towards the industrial landscape or show the house in its reflection. An overlaid view is facilitated, determined by the brightness within the theme.
By mechanical means a crossfading effect is achieved. The rhythmical mechanical movement of the venetian blinds create a smooth transition. The concrete representation of the vistas is either directly shown, mirrored and superposed or the lines of the venetian blinds stand out more prominently, and thus the depiction of the external space seemingly dissolves.

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