I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round, 2013
An der Projektionswand sind 2 Kosmetikspiegel befestigt, sie überdecken die Augen wie eine runde Sonnenbrille, gleichzeitig reflektieren sie die eigentlichen Augen an die Decke des Raumes.
Videoinstallation, Projektion, 2 Kosmetikspiegel
variabel
Hitchhiking – The Birds, 2005
stills from a video, 4min loop
inspired by the movie The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock (film still)
Hitchhiking – The Birds ist ein 4 min Trickfilm aus dem Jahr 2005. Er bezieht sich auf eine Szene aus dem Film „ Die Vögel“ des britischen Regiseurs Alfred Hitchcock. Eine kurze Sequenz aus dem Filmklassiker habe ich im Atelier aus Haushaltsgegenständen nachgestellt. Im Originalfilm ein Spielplatz-Klettergerüst, auf dem immer mehr schwarze Raben landen, wird in meiner Version ein Wäscheständer, die Vögel sind ersetzt durch schwarze Socken. Diese wirken jedoch wie Vögel, da sie nicht herunterhängen, sondern aufrecht nach oben stehen. Ich hatte den Wäscheständer um 180 Grad gedreht von der Decke gehängt, so hingen auch die Socken. Anschließend habe ich die Filmkamera herumgedreht, so daß der Eindruck entsteht die Socken stünden nach oben.
In Kitchen with Picasso, 2004
Edding on plastic bag, flying over my gas oven
video, 90min
The Heart of Darkness • video HD, 12 min • Frederik Foert, China 2017
This short film was created from May to October 2017 in various parks in the cities of Guangzhou and Beijing as well as in Beijing‘s shopping mall „The Place“. The underlying soundtrack „The End“ by the american band The Doors is a direct parallel to the movie classic „Apocalypse Now“ by Francis Ford Coppola (1979). The music is, so to speak, the framework for a film collage of everyday scenes of Chinese life, which absurdly runs along the plot of one of the most famous anti-war movies of all time. Instead of helicopter squadrons like in the movie there were choreographies for lawnmowers and children‘s toys created with amateur actors.
Music: The Doors, The End, Lyrics written by Jim Morrison, 1967
Little Red Riding Hood • video HD, 3.50 min • Frederik Foert, China/Italien 2017
Little Red Riding Hood is the shortest of the three films on show and most likely reminds us of a music video. Accompanied by a cover version of the eponymous 60s classic, we watch a scene in a courtyard of the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace in Beijing. In favorable weather conditions, this is a popular stage for wedding photographers and their clients. Dozens of brides and grooms stage themselves here on a beautiful afternoon and a large number of photographers and assistants are anxious that no other bridal couple gets in their way! The scene looks as dramatic and artficial as a Frederico Fellini or Michelangelo Antonioni movie. Cut - change of scene: Venice, Italy, the dream destination of all the newly-weds – filmed early at 5 o‘clock in the morning, no man, no tourist, you only see the waste from the evening before. The pigeons pick the leftovers out of the discarded pizza boxes and the sea gulls mark their territory ... pure romance!
music: Amanda Seyfried: Little Red Riding Hood, 2013
songwriter: Ronald Blackwell, 1966
To Live Is To Fly • video HD, 6.35 min • Frederik Foert, China 2017
The movie shows a 7min bus ride from terminal 3 of Beijing international Airport over the airfield to the plane. I taped my IPhone to the window of the bus, so I got a s table camera dolly shot. Then I just used a simple turn of perspective, putting the images upsight down. So we, the spectators, are loosing ground, while the sky gets structured by graphical signs and hanging vehicles. The former floor becomes a map of our imagination.
music: Towns Van Zandt, To Live Is To Fly, 1971 / Dexter, Rainbow Flight, 2013
