Abstractum

A Sound video composed and realized by Arthur Stammet

Abstractum is a movie about the problems which Nature has to endure by the Human civilization and it represents a world of reflection, words and philosophy, a world in which Nature may afford with humans.

These humans are nor politicians, nor industrialists but thinking people, represented by the ones, who come from three different cultures. The three following thoughts appear in the movie and structure its musical and pictured shapes:




Aliud legunt pueri, aliud viri, aliud senes (Children read in another way than adults who read in another way than old persons) - Grotius

Souvent j'ai accompli un délicieux voyage, embarqué sur un mot, dans les abîmes du passé, comme l'insecte qui flotte au gré du fleuve sur quelque brin d'herbe (I often made delicious journeys navigating on a word, in the great valley of my pass, like an insect which moves with a blade of grass conducted by the river) - Honoré de Balzac

Jeder dumme Junge kann einen Käfer zertreten, aber alle Professoren der Welt können keinen herstellen (Every silly boy is able to kill a bug, but all the professors in the world cannot create a new bug) - Arthur Schopenhauer.

Water, toothed wheels and wood are three parts of a dialogue between humans and Nature in this movie.

Wood is represented at the beginning by a tree and a wooden bridge, constructed by humans in order to domesticate water. The toothed wheels are the pure human factor in the movie which oscillates between the three subjects in an abstract way of representation.

The deep subject of the movie is "Respect" and must be found between all that sounds and pictures.

Persons who don't cannot understand this message and their degree of abstraction isn't high enough for it.

I don't think that these persons have to be informed about this message and I also think that they don't have this kind of preoccupation.

Arthur Stammet, September 2003

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Videokunst
• Art vidéo
• Video Art
• Film
• Psychedelic
• Nature
• Experimental
• Animation
• Anime
• Civilization
• Grotius
• Balzac
• Respect