Muros

The theme of "Muros" is the human desire to overcome borders. In the atempt of doing this some will succeed and some will fail. The video shows the static condition of a stone wall. The dancers run against this wall and try to overcome. You will get the best performance of "Muros" by projecting the video against a high wall outside or in a industrial placement. Use a good audio system.

"Muros" was conceived at interface of music, video and contemporary dance. Visual artist Janeth Berrettini initiated a collective process to work with the given theme. "Muros" was set to scene in front of the ancient walls of Mexico's famous colonial town Morelia. A outline of the music by Hermann Bühler - played on a ghetto blaster - was defining the choreographie of the dancers's movements, featuring the young Mexican contemporary dance group "La Serpiente". After filming the scenes Janeth Berrettini condensed the video material into a so called "Kinetic Plastic" which is defined by simple but effective means and by a complexe post production.

The project "Muros" would like to set a sign for the victims of the walls. While the border fences protect the possession conditions of the first world by passive force, humans die at these walls. The Berlin wall separated Eastern Europe for 27 years and is a symbol for delimitation and degradation. Today a kilometer-long border fence between the United States and Mexico is under construction and partly built. More fences and walls are built in northern Africa, in Palestine and Israel as well as in Irak, separating areas over far distances by a high concrete wall.
These borders, developed and guarded by western states, separate humans of the first and the third world. Although humans are connected by telephone, internet, tourism, culture and knowledge, they are kept away from each other by concrete and wires. These borders are developed for economic and political reasons - fed by egoism, avarice and racism.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Muros
• Contemporary Dance
• Ballett
• Video
• Music
• Improvisation
• Hermann Bühler
• Janeth Berrettini
• Morelia
• Zurich
• Zürich
• La Serpiente
• Mexico
• Venezuela
• Switzerland

[norahwhoreha]

this is great, i would love to steal it and use it as a music video! its fantastic. i really love it