Miniatures – Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf
Miniaturen – Viele Berliner Künstler in Hoisdorf
Austria, West Germany
1983
16 Min
Black and White
1.33:1
None
Synopsis
On a weekend in June 1983, in what was deemed a "country outing,“ an impressive number of artists from Berlin went to a small village in Schleswig-Holstein; their intention was to give the local residents a taste of Berlin’s avant-garde art. This event included presentations of dance, music, performance art, painting, land art and film. Back in Berlin the footage was manipulated in several ways to produce an “experimental examination.” —independent film and video database
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Peter Tscherkassky
Born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria. Lived in Berlin 1979-84. Studied philosophy. Doctoral thesis: “Film as Art. Towards a Critical Aesthetics of Cinematography” (1985/86). Founding member of Sixpack Film. Organized several international avant-garde film festivals in Vienna and film tours abroad. Since 1984 numerous publications and lectures on the history and theory of avant-garde film. 1993 and 1994 artistic director of the annual Austrian film festival “Diagonale”. Editor of the book “Peter Kubelka” (1995; with Gabriele Jutz). Films since 1979. Recent book: Alexander Horwath, Michael Loebenstein (Ed.), “Peter Tscherkassky” (germ./engl.; Vienna 2005). —http://www.tscherkassky.at
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Flavien
25Sep12
Le monde expérimental ne tourne pas rond ! Les artistes expérimentaux, réunis ici à Schleswig-Holstein, répètent, sautent, ressassent et diluent leur corps dans la matière du film. C'est ce que ce truculent essai de Tscherkassky dégage : un pogo ludique d'ombres et de couleurs, issus d'autant de corps qui se joignent au staccato de la pellicule pour composer, comme à la volée, une horde éclatée de lumières.
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I Bet the Film Looks Better Than the Day
By Greg W on March 18, 2011
Miniatures is a film of an event, but not aiming to capture or explain the event. Not meant to illustrate it. Feels like a 15 minute long poem ABOUT an event. A fast sound and light painting. Impressions… read review
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