[video]Flâneu®`s gEnova

a short example of how the [video]Flâneu® is strolling through a particular city...

[video]Flâneu®`s walk
through stereotypes und superlatives of the city of gEnova


The stereotypes from / or about Genoa, written from natives or guests persons of the city past like Anton Chekhov, Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles Dickens, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schiller, Richard Wagner, Oscar Wilde, were the base of the vertical flanerie(=strolling) of me (=of my research about the past of the city of Genoa.

Later, as i was there to feel, see, smell, taste and hear, the rhythm, the colours, the structures, the lights, it is starting the horizontal flanerie of me on / through Genoa.

A diagonal flanerie (=the meeting with persons who lives right now there, the creation of an intensive relationship with them), as also the meeting with invited artists and the hosting persons of the event, were also an extreme important and probably necessary step to feel the rhythm of Genoa, the present and the great dynamic of the city`s future.

The video-takes of my camera were playing between this three different ways of meeting:

sometimes they "approve" the stereotypes about Genoa,

sometimes they "ironise" them,

sometimes they show exactly an "opposite" to the stereotypes.

The actual working on (with) the video material from Genoa it would bring new short and feature works, new video installations, biennial-, museum-, internet-, or city-variations...


konstantinos-antonios goutos / the[video]Flâneu®



ps.
In the city of Genoa, thanks to the invitation of the festival nopasswd (http://nopasswd.blogspot.com) and the great hospitality of its people, i was realized that the purpose of the [video]Flâneu® is not just to find some unique moments walking alone with his camera, but to make new intensive relationships with other people, to act as a performer through a city, to be a sculptural point of the city, also to live somehow like a citizen of a city...

...therefore i am grateful and extreme happy for this experience..;-)

http://videoflaneur.googlepages.com/


PROJECT [video]Flâneu®

The artist walks like a „Flâneur through the city. He does not have a turtle with him (as the original Parisian Flâneur of the 1830s used to); later, he does not write stories (as Edgar Allan Poe or Hans Christian Andersen used to), he does not write poems (as Baudelaire or Rilke used to).



He has only a video camera. He takes shots of the city; he takes shots of the "life" of the people of the city, sometimes, he also shoots "himself"

(...without camera moves, without tripod, without a zoom lens, without special lighting, with original sound, without permission...);

he puts the shots together with no chronological sequence and under different contexts:

tales and history, reactions - relations, sounds - words, lights - colours, structures - architectures, incidents - accidents, order - disorder...

Not a description of a journey but „my lyrical reaction, with all my truth and simplicity as Federico Garcia Lorca once said about his collection A Poet in New York.



films of Vertov, Haneke, Benning, Penalva or Juergen Boettcher
paintings of Bosch, Brueghel, Giorgione, Rembrandt or Strawalde
photos of Atget, Stieglitz, Friedlander, Lartigue or Cartier-Bresson
texts of Benjamin, Kracauer, Bazin, Mc Luhan or Vilém Flusser

are important works for dialog and inspiration...



[video]Flâneu®s ARCHIVE

The archive has already a duration of more than 200 hours (with scenes from Berlin, Leipzig, Brusells, Nuremberg, Larissa, Thessaloniki, Cologne, Prague, Dresden, Potsdam, Police, Athens, Halle, Gdansk, Weimar, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Aarau, Basel, Kassel, Dessau, Braunschweig, Brandenburg, Naoussa, Erfurt, Rhodes, Hamburg, Opole, Krakow, Auschwitz, Olomouc, Pavia, Genoa, Plauen, Chalkida, Meissen, Szczecin, Liége, Enschede...)




Since the last three years, more than 40 different works from the archive were taking part in more than 80 film/media/art events (in 23 lands and 54 cities) of europe, america and asia...

The actual working on (with) the archive it would bring new short and feature works, new video installations, biennial-, museum-, internet-, or city-variations...

more works online you can find here:

the[video]Flâneu® shoots auschwitz on shoah film collection
http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1975

life circle live circus life on the website of the belgian television channel rtc
http://www.rtc.be/content/view/308346/1488/

http://vimeo.com/user2082822

more infos:

http://videoflaneur.googlepages.com/

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[videoflaneur]

thanks for your but-comment! as it is already written and said ("The actual working on (with) the video material from Genoa it would bring new short and feature works, new video installations, biennial-, museum-, internet-, or city-variations...

") this is just a short intro on my genova/strolling and has not to do with the real works which will soon follows..;-)

[Tatjana86]

The images are fantastic. But: I would much rather like to see the video without the comments, which I find rather well-worn. this question of stereotypes is such a basic question for all types of art - and the response (straight forward, ironic) is basically the choice that any artist has towards which subject ever - do you glorify or ridicule the subject? - that i really don't want to read a lame comment about it, that gives me the feeling, the filmmaker wants to move on very safe territory.

[leomon1954]

perfecto

[domterszeged]

ok!