PROJECT [video]Flâneu®

http://videoflaneur.googlepages.com/

"It is not fiction because, with a few exceptions, it is based wholly on unstylised reality.

It is not documentary because the reality is not organized into an explanation of itself.

And it is not cinéma-vérité because the artist shoots and manipulates his unstylized reality

in such a way that the result has style."

[From Gene Youngblood`s Expanded Cinema (1970)]

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
vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1975

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

http://vimeo.com/user2082822

more infos:

http://videoflaneur.googlepages.com/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• flaneur
• videoflaneur
• video
• art
• cities
• stroll
• baudelaire
• benjamin
• flusser
• juergen
• boettcher
• strawalde
• genius
• loci
• punctum
• homo
• ludens
• aura
• unhappy
• consciousness
• heterotopias
• rilke

[jordanoooo]

Hallo Go To. wie geht es dir? Sehr gute Videoarbeit!

Grüsse Jordan

[Lilianrodrigues2001]

Well done!

Very intense, full of content and it expresses the idea what is it all about yet showing how unlimited the possibilities really are. You really have a way about looking at things...

[leonapberlin]

very good job!!!