Starting point for the film is the video footage of four YouTube members and the question how much of the self actually remains in the material. In four parts Eight Characters and Two Syllables addresses the community, the self-expression of the users, their motivation and their relationship to the audience.
This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the basic rules of dialectics and rhetoric and provides training in body language, gesture and facial expression. The aim of selling something has always been...
Night's High Noon; an Anti-Terrain is a powerful visual portrayal of the memories sublimated in the cultural construction of contemporary Australian identity. Each pictorial 'scene' is constructed of three layers of iconic images, creating a complex 'emblematic landscape' that...
The living room seems as usual. The protagonist asks himself: Watching TV or not? The computer silently picks up the dialogue: "I'm afraid I have some bad news for you." And then reality...
A group of unemployed friends spend their time in a coffee shop in a popular neighbourhood of the Tunisian capital. The coffee shop patrons are following a soccer match, commenting and analysing, when suddenly the Israeli war against Gaza erupts and the comments turn to the event. In a cinematic portrait, the film succeeds in...
Every evening shortly before closedown and immediately before the appearance of the poltergeists, the television networks bless us with 90 patriotic seconds of the national anthem. Instead of standing at attention in from of the TV, as is right and proper, some individuals...
L'Image poses, through a fantastical tale, a series of interrogations about the origin of the image and its function. What is an image? A resemblance? An imitation? Or a transformation? In the postmodern era the idea of "the image"...
In this New York-based videotape Astrid Heibach deals with the relationship between individual and mass media. A ballet dancer, reminding the viewer of Miss Piggy, spins around in front of the spectacular background of New York to the waltz music of Strauss. Her body becomes increasingly transparent until it completely disappears, a result of the constant use of electronically reproduced images.
The two meter high obelisk with integrated, battery-powered TV has been erected at a faraway place in the Königsforst close to Cologne as a transmitting station to Sirius. The obelisk, known to people as...