Videostills
Installation view: Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin
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sample)
Splash
Planschen
2008, 16mm film transferred on DV-pal, 5:05,
Dolby Surround
Concept and direction: Christian Niccoli
Camera: Andreas Steffan
Camera assistant: Andreas Hartmann
Editing: Susanne
Krauß
Sound design: Roman Strack
Compositing: Rudolph Germann
Cast: Anja Barth, Gaia Bartolini, Steffi Leon, Thomas Lichtenstein, Christian
Meier, Michel Schüler
Realized in collaboration with:
Institute for New Media, Rostock, Germany
HFF – Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf”,
Potsdam, Germany
Description
The video „Planschen“ („Splash“) metaphorically embodies
the lack of anchor points we experience in our time and is represented through
a mass of people swimming around in the middle of the ocean; each one supported
by his own tyre-tube. The protagonists are 3 women and 3 men floating next
to each other. During the 5-minutes video they start gazing each other, sometimes
with looks filled with jealousy, sometimes filled with deep sarcasm.
©2007 christian niccoli. all rights reserved