Larger than Life

Video loop for Miniinstallation on iphone with objects
111s, 2017

Larger than Life, Installation View at Free Update, KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 2019, Photo: Jens Ziehe

Synopsis:

LARGER THAN LIFE is shown on an iPhone 4. The video is a condensed version of the film SPEED, in which a bus can’t stop and drives colliding in many cars through LA and finally ends in crashing into an airplane. For Larger Than Life, the film SPEED is reduced from 111 minutes to 111 seconds, and only shows the bus crashing into objects and cars until the final inferno. Then it starts from the beginning. Melhus notes that the short film is his imagining of a mirror reflecting what is happening in our society today.

Larger than Life, Installation View at Free Update, KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 2019, Photo: Jens Ziehe