Installation view: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
play
2-in-1-channel video (2:30 sample)
Escalating perception /
the gaze
2004,
Two-channel video installation, 7:33, DV-PAL
Two versions:
- Two-channel
video installation (7:33)
- Two-in-one-channel video (7:33)
Realized with support of Deutsche Bahn
Concept
and direction: Christian Niccoli
Camera: Rudolf Germann
Light: Max Kähni
Sound: Danjiel Sitnica - Lang
Set photographer: Jens Jöster
Cast: David Arterberry, Julia De Boor, Stephan Bürgi, Bettina Kaiser,
Eva Kölling, Franziska Krumwiede, Cuni Ploner, Thomas Müller, Gerda
Müller, Edgar Wintersberger
Best
boys: Raimund Kompatscher, Pietro Mele, Konstantin Vogas
Description:
In
this work an escalator within the metro station Potsdamer Platz in Berlin
transforms into a location for a research of a partner. My attempt was to
put in scene a flirt between adults carried up and down by an escalator and
the observer. Unexpectedly, while they are moving up and down, the protagonists
start addressing to the observer short sentences about themselves and their
expectations of a new relationship, as if inviting the him/her to a confrontation
with their real necessities and wishes. These sentences are derived from interviews
with Berlin-based women and men aged between 30 and 40, who, after a separation,
started to perceive themselves once again as potential partners in a future
relationship.
©2007 christian niccoli. all rights reserved