Videostills and installation view: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Escalating perception / the gaze
2004, two channel videoinstallation, 7:47
2 screens, 2 video beamers, 2 DVD players, synchronizer, 5.1 Dolby surround
speakers
Concept and direction: Christian Niccoli
Camera: Rudolph Germann
Sound engineer: Danijel Sitnica – Lang
Gaffer: Max Kähni
Best boy: Raimund Kompatscher, Pietro Mele, Konstantin Vogas
Set photographer: Jens Jöster
Cast: David Arterberry, Stephan Bürgi, Julia de Boor, Bettina Kaiser,
Eva Kölling, Franziska Krumwiede,
Thomas B. Müller, Gerda Müller, Cuni Ploner, Edgar Wintersberger
Description
In this video, an escalator within the metro station Potsdamer Platz
in Berlin transforms into a location for a research of a partner. The attempt
is 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