Holy Precursor is a meditation on the cycle of presence and absence, the after-life of traces, and nature as a solemn witness of history in the present.
Video
Yellow Limbo, HD video with stereo sound, 14′, 2011 The starting point of Yellow Limbo is an extra-ordinary episode which has all but disappeared from official histories; namely, the failed passage of fourteen international cargo ships through the Suez Canal … More
In Sounds from Beneath a disused coal-mine in East Kent, once populated with workers, machines and the sounds of their activities, is brought back to life through song. The video centers around a choral piece in which ex-miners’ recall in song the subterranean sounds of a working coal mine.
Remnants of the Future combines elements of documentary, sci-fi and electro-acoustics. It portrays the precarious existence in a post-Soviet ghost-town, an inverted ruin of the modern that is still waiting to fulfill its utopian ambition of communal living.
Around a table an ensemble of five speakers re-visit their memories of the famous Café Odeon in Zürich: a contemporary, not yet crumbled ruin in whose still intact art-nouveau interior lie former utopias, stories and characters
The video shows a recording / casting session with a native German speaking actor of non-European descent who is speaking Karl Kraus’ text ‘In These Great Times’ in English and German.
The video shows a slow close-up pan which creates an tactile inventory of the surfaces and materials of the café’s interior and its ornamental vocabulary
The wish to establish the exact time that a tree standing in the forest needs in order to be converted into a newspaper has given the owner of a Harz paper mill the occasion to conduct an interesting experiment.
The café is filmed in long-shots after closing time at 3 am and before it re-opens the next day at 6 am.