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RESOLUTION

4K Video, 18 min., 2022 ...
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/ film, installation, work

HOMESICK

4K Video, 14 min, 2022 ...
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/ emergency, end-of-time, film, mass media, media, pandemic, psychological, work

SUGAR

4K Video, 20:30 min, 2019 ...
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/ body, communication, film, influencer, installation, media, movement, robot, science fiction, touch

Doors of Reception

Video for Installation, 2 min, 2019 ...
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/ installation, science fiction, site specific/inspired, sound, transition

The End Time

4-Channel Video installation, 7:04 min., 2019 ...
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/ america, computer games, dorothy, hell, installation, limbo, moon, simulation, the wizard of oz, time, vietnam, war

CAN YOU SEE MY ART?

Video loop for installation, 4’53, 2018 ...
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/ art, culture, film, humour, installation, media, music, pop, social media, work

I-MEER

Installation for industrial buckets and TV simulators, 2017 Dimensions variable ...
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/ consumerism, digital life, mass-production, more, post-consumer, work

MOON OVER DA NANG

HD VIDEO, 2016, 15 min. experimental documentary ...
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/ apollo11, astronaut, documentary, film, globalisation, interview, marble, media, moon, vietnam, work

Larger than Life

Video loop for Miniinstallation on iphone with objects 111s, 2017 ...
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/ autokino, car, cinema, crash, disaster, found footage, miniature, more, work

THE THEORY OF FREEDOM

3 channel high definition video installation, 13 min, 2015 ...
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/ apocalypse, ayn rand, capitalism, evangelicalism, gated communities, ideologies, installation, neoliberalism, power relations, work, zombies

FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE

4K Video, 15 min., 2014 ...
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/ apocalypse, capitalism, evangelism, film, ghosts, globalisation, horror, musical, neoliberalism, psyche, rationalism, undead, urbanism

KEKS STATT KÜNSTE

C-Print, A4, 2014 ...
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/ photography, Uncategorized, work

HEADSHOTS (1991 – 2014)

Captured from Film, Video and Production Stills 87 C-Prints, 40x30 cm, framed, 2014 Installation Views: ...
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/ history, materiality, media, meta work, overview, photography, portrait, Uncategorized

MAESTRA

HD Video, 3 min. loop, 2009/2014 Synopsis:  A masked rider who is armed heavily with high-tech equipment sits on the ...
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/ caricature, dance, installation, mexico, militarisation, music, Uncategorized, work

HEADHUNTER

Video Object, (HD Video, Stand-up Figure), 2014 Synopsis: A headless figure is holding the head of the artist who is ...
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/ fairy tale, installation, interactive, play, Uncategorized

Pflasterspender

(Band-Aid Dispenser) Found Object, 2014 Must have for Friday 13th ...
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/ more, Uncategorized, wordplay

RANDI I

Fine Art Print on banner material, 285 x 150 cm, 2013 Example of Installation: ...
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/ photography, Uncategorized

BEARSKIN

Bearskin, Fine Art Print, 80 x 120 cm, framed, 2013 ...
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/ animal, body, creature, human, photography, set photography

LIBERTY PARK

multichannel video installation, 2013 incl. 9 sets with 13 standup figures and billboard video, neon letters, door sign and 1 ...
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/ capitalism, consumerism, exclusion/inclusion, family, globalisation, installation, neoliberalism, norms, religion, Uncategorized, urbanism, work

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Found, modified object, 2013 ...
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/ more, work

Heaven

HD Video for Vertical Flatscreen, 6:20 min, 2013 Demo Video: This video was developed as part of the installation "Liberty ...
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/ heaven, installation, observer, portrait, security, work

HAUSER

A4, Visualisation/ Concept for a Work, 2013 When investigating the phenomenon of Kaspar Hauser for a group exhibition Bjørn Melhus ...
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/ coding, LED, more, story, text, Uncategorized

SUDDEN DESTRUCTION

Video HD, 4:20 min, (Screening Format), 2012 Video HD, 4:00 min, loop (Installation), 2012 Synopsis: A man in a hotel. A ...
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/ 2012, absurd, apocalypse, evangelism, film, horror, medium, news, sensationalism, Uncategorized, youtube

MADE ON MARS

LABEL www.madeonmars.org ...
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/ capitalism, financial crisis, label, mars, more, Uncategorized

99 EUROS

C-Print, A4, 2011 ...
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/ photography, Uncategorized, work

DAS BADEZIMMER

HD Video, 5'10 min, 2011, black and white Synopsis: In reference to the trailer of Psycho (USA 1960), narrated in ...
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/ film, hitchcock, referentiality, site specific/inspired, trailer, Uncategorized, voice over, work

THIS IS MY HOME

5 channel video installation, 2011 (On 5 flat screens, size variable, 2'00 / 3'00 / 4'00 / 5'00 / 6'00 min., ...
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/ found footage, installation, manual, PTSD, Uncategorized, work

I DO NOT BELONG IN THIS HOUSE

HD Video for projection, 24 min., 2011 Synopsis: In "I do not belong in this House", the figure who seemed ...
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/ animal, architecture, claustrophobia, figure, installation, Uncategorized, work

I’M NOT THE ENEMY

HD Video for Installation, 25 min., 2011 Screening Version: HD Video, 13:30 min, 2011, Germany Very short synopsis: Is it ...
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/ claustrophobia, drama, fairy tale, family, fear, film, ghosts, installation, memory, PTSD, trauma, Uncategorized, veteran, war movies

NIGHTWATCH | NACHTWACHE

2010, 3 channel video installation (HD, SD mix): 7 tents, 1 billboard, 1 video projection Synopsis: The meaning of the ...
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/ catharsis, emotion, horror, installation, moon, night, sounds, work

AFTERLIFE

HD Video, 7:10min, 2010, colour Synopsis: Vast desert expanses extend out in our imaginations as life after death, the white ...
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/ Battle Hymn, big jim, desert, film, ghosts, independence, music, Uncategorized

THE CENTER OF THE WORLD

HD VIDEO, 25 min., 2010 Norwegian with English Subtitles Synopsis: Time flows through the bottleneck of an hourglass like grains ...
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/ city, collective, community, documentary, film, found footage, identity, memory, norway, timetravel, Uncategorized, work

TREEHOUSE #1, #2 & #3

TREEHOUSE #1 Video, Installation for Treehouse and 1 TV, 3:29 min, loop Synopsis: Lights blink in the treehouse, sounds of ...
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/ chase, colour field, installation, objects, sound track, Uncategorized, work

HECHO EN MEXICO

HD Video for installation, 4 min. (loop), 2009 Synopsis: HECHO EN MEXICO was realized in Mexico City during a one month ...
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/ desolation, film, hollywood, mexico, terror, trailer, Uncategorized, war, work

BEAGLE III

Video Sculpture (Driftwood Sculpture and TVs), 2009 Description: BEAGLE 3 is an outlandish looking video sculpture the exterior of which ...
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/ colourfield, installation, morse code, site specific/inspired, sos, Uncategorized, weather, work

MARS RECOVERY

Object and Text Video, 2009, 5:37 min, loop Description: MARS RECOVERY includes videos, photographs and objects orbiting around the once ...
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/ capitalism, colonialism, installation, mars, Mars Recovery, neoliberalism, space, Uncategorized, utopia

Random Superheroes

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/ photography, superhero, toy, Uncategorized

SLOGAN SERIES

Photo Series, ongoing FLYING BLUE C-Print, 30 x 40 cm, 2008 CUT & GO C-Print, 30 x 40 cm, 2008 ...
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/ language, photography, Uncategorized, work

SCENERY MARS

Video, 2009, 7'10, loop (part of MARS RECOVERY) Synopsis: The projection which is part of the work Mars Recovery/ Mars ...
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/ installation, mars, Mars Recovery, scenery, Uncategorized, utopia, work

CRITICAL SYSTEM ALERT

12 Channel Installation on 12 Photo Frames with Video Option, 2009 (stand alone work, but often presented together with Mars ...
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/ colourfield, crisis, installation, Mars Recovery, object, Uncategorized, work

OMEN

Video, HD animation, moving image loop, 2008 Synopsis: In OMEN five identical, muscular men march over the globe in synchronised ...
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/ animation, digital, film, loop, no sound, superhero, Uncategorized, work, world, zero

DEADLY STORMS 333

9 channel Video Installation for 9 vertical flat screens on 3 walls, 2008, 7 min. Synopsis: Deadly Storms 333, is ...
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/ agitation, angst, form, installation, news, ornament, sensationalism, terror, Uncategorized, work

SCREENSAVERS

SCREENSAVERS for Osram Seven Screens interactive media installation on LED Screens/ installation in public space Synopsis: Screensavers is the name ...
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/ interactive, more, public space, reactive, site specific, superheroes, Uncategorized

I-MAN U-MAN

C-Print, 80x80 cm, mounted on Alu Dibond, 2008 ...
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/ photography, Uncategorized

DEADLY STORMS

3 channel video installation on 3 vertical plasma or LCD screens, 42" (minimum size) 7'00 min. loop, 2008 Synopsis: DEADLY ...
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/ abstraction, installation, news, ornament, sensationalism, spectacle, triptych, tv, Uncategorized

MURPHY

Video, 3:45 min., 2008, Video Installation, 3:30 min., loop, 2008 Synopsis: The videolight sequence is based on sound snippets from the movie ...
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/ abstract, colourfield, film, installation, Image, PTSD, strobe, Uncategorized, work

THE CITY

Ongoing video project, variable in installation size, 2007 Synopsis: In "The City" night time views of major cities around the ...
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/ blue hour, documentary, globalisation, installation, surveillance, terror, Uncategorized, urbanism, work

THE MEADOW

Video (DV), 28:38 min (loop), 2007 Screening Version: 29:40 min, 2007 Synopsis: In order to engage an increasingly commercialized society ...
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/ angst, choice, coming of age, fear, film, identity, installation, jimmy, subconscious, time structure, Uncategorized, wood, work

99 FLOORS

Single Channel Video for Flat Screen, 11:35 min, loop, 2007 Summary: Elevators form the essential travelling experiences of vertical urban ...
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/ build environment, film, installation, minimal, moving still, Uncategorized, work

THE CASTLE

Video, 2:30 min, 2007 Synopsis: By considering the cinematic conventions and stylizations of movie trailers, THE CASTLE manipulates visual content and ...
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/ cinema, convention, fear, film, ghost, horror, stereotypes, trailer, Uncategorized, work

POLICIA

Video, 2 frames, loop, 2007 Synopsis: Exhibiting a paradoxically static yet active Mexican police helicopter, appearing to be simultaneously vigilant and ...
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/ film, installation, loop, minimal, police, security, surveillance, time, Uncategorized, work

EMOTION FIELD #1

EMOTION FIELD #1 - The Odd Couple (German) 3 channel installation (synchronized) for 16 TVs, 2007, 7'15" (loop) Synopsis: Such is ...
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/ amp, archive, conservation, dubbing, emotion, installation, synchronisation, technology, translation, Uncategorized, voice over, work

EASTERN WESTERN PARK

6 channel installation for 3 projections, monitors and tent, 2005, 11:15 min, loop Demo: Documentation: Synopsis: Eastern Western Park is ...
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/ advertising, culture clash, eastwest, globalisation, installation, park, repetition, stereotypes, Uncategorized, work

BEHIND THE MOON, BEYOND THE RAIN

Video, 2 channel installation, 7:50 min, loop, 2005 Screening Version (single channel), 7:50 min, 2005 Synopsis: "Behind the Moon, Beyond ...
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/ 10 years, ageing, depression, exhaustion, film, identity, installation, miscommunication, stagnation, telephone, Uncategorized, work

CAPTAIN

Video, 2 channel installation, 14 min., loop, 2005 Screening Version: HD Video, 14:20 min, 2005 Synopsis: As a child, Bjørn Melhus ...
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/ binary, distopia, film, installation, science fiction, space, star trek, tv, Uncategorized, universe, utopia, work

HAPPY REBIRTH

Video, 1:30 min, 2004 Synopsis: Marilyn Monroe is a cultural sex icon, and her singing happy birthday in a sultry ...
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/ film, reenactment, simple, smurf, Uncategorized

FIGHTING THE FORCES OF EVIL

2 channel installation for 6 TV screens, 2003, 7'30 min Synopsis: Bjørn Melhus´ video installation "FIGHTING THE FORCES OF EVIL" ...
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/ abstraction, colour field, entertainment, installation, miltainment, still men out there, Uncategorized, war, work

STILL MEN OUT THERE

6 channel (synchronized) installation for 18 TVs, 10min, loop, 2003 Synopsis: Composed of eighteen television monitors, installed on the floor in ...
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/ abstract, cinema, colour, colourfield, installation, light, media, narrative, ornament, trauma, Uncategorized, war, work

I’M YOUR TV

Video, 0:28 min, 2003 Synopsis & Background: In spring 2003 the US American art collector Cliff Diver, (owner of C.P. Diver ...
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/ film, gun, public, reaction, trailer, Uncategorized, war

AUTO CENTER DRIVE

16 mm film transferred to video, 28:00 min, 2003 Synopsis: By quoting the most diverse identification models from the memory ...
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/ big jim, cinema, collective, film, identity, installation, jimmy, memory, pop icon, Uncategorized, work, youth

DIE UMGEKEHRTE RÜSTUNG

(THE INVERSED ARMORY) Video, 2002, 23:42 min, loop In collaboration with Yves Netzhammer Synopsis: Die umgekehrte Rüstung (The Reversed Armory) ...
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/ blood, body, installation, loneliness, Uncategorized, work

SOMETIMES (Fire in Zero Gravity)

Video Installation, 2002, 5 channel installation on 10 TVs and 4 projections, 8 min. loop Description: Ten television monitors evoke the ...
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/ angst, campfire, catastrophe, installation, nightmare, Uncategorized, work

THE ORAL THING

Single Channel Video, 2001, 8 min., loop (for screening or installation) Synopsis: The Oral Thing casts the TV host as evangelist ...
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/ believe, choir, film, ornament, public/private, sensationalism, spectacle, talk show, teleevangelism, truth, tv, Uncategorized, work

PRIMETIME

3 channel installation for 29 consumer TVs, 1 projection, 5 video cubes and stage, 1o min., loop, 2001 Synopsis: Primetime ...
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/ baroque, confession, installation, media, spectacle, stage, talkshow, Uncategorized, work

WEEPING

Video projection, 7 min. loop, 2001 Synopsis: In Weeping (2001) Melhus assumes the role of a televangelist preaching the way to ...
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/ face, installation, observation, rhetoric, rhythm, surveillance, teleevangelism, Uncategorized, work

GOOD MORNING NEW WORLD

Video, 58 min., 2000 Compilation of 75 TV excerpts from year 2000 New Year's broadcasts from all over the world ...
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/ document, event, film, found footage, global, historical, tagesaktuell, Uncategorized, work

SILVERCITY 1+2

Video Installation, 2 channels, 7 min., 1999, Silver City 1 (Silver City ist weit weg/ Silver City is far away) ...
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/ dub, installation, memory, repetition, space, Uncategorized, work

AGAIN AND AGAIN

Installation for 8 Monitors, Video, 8 min loop, 1998 Synopsis: In the video installation "Again & Again" Melhus tells—not without ...
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/ artifical, cloning, consumerism, fake, installation, natural, ornament, repetition, tv, TV shopping, Uncategorized, work

ARRIVAL DEPARTURE – DEPARTURE ARRIVAL

Video Projection on 2 screens / 2 LED cubes, 6:05 min, loop, 1998 ...
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/ installation, Uncategorized

OUT OF THE BLUE

Video, 6:27  min., 1997 OUT OF THE BLUE presents a subjective and informative response to being part of the first European ...
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/ colonialism, film, icon, lecture, Uncategorized, voice over, work

NO SUNSHINE

Video, 1997, 6 min., loop (for installation) 6'15 min. with titles for screening Synopsis: Depicting pairs of infantile doppelgängers floating ...
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/ childhood, denial, film, music video, ornament, pop, repetition, reproduction, twins, Uncategorized, virus, war, work

BLUE MOON

Single Channel Video, 4 min., 1997 Double channel video/ installation, 4 min., 1997 Synopsis: “Mickey went to Europe, the Smurf ...
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/ broadcast, displacement, film, loss, melancholy, music, ornament, smurf, time, Uncategorized, work

WEIT WEIT WEG

(FAR FAR AWAY) Film, 16 mm transferred to Video, 39 min., 1995 Story: With her green bow in her hair, ...
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/ commodification, film, loss of innocence, narcissism, phone, remote, tv, Uncategorized, urbanity, virtual, white noise, work

REINIGUNGSKASSETTE

(CLEANING TAPE) Video, VHS, 60 min., 1993 Synopsis: Inside the TV lives someone ... occasionally they clean their window and you ...
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/ film, Uncategorized, work

JETZT (NOW)

Video, 5 min., 1993 Description: White forms and shapes emerge and vanish against a black flickering screen. An anthem and explosions ...
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/ abstract, documentary, film, Germany, historical, Uncategorized, work

DAS ZAUBERGLAS (THE MAGIC GLASS)

Video, 6'00, 1991 DAS ZAUBERGLAS considers subjectivity in regards to media culture, viewing and being viewed, and the positions of ...
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/ communication, film, medium, mirror, ritual, subjectivity, tv, Uncategorized, work

ICH WEISS NICHT, WER DAS IST

(I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS) Video, 3 min, 1991 Film Synopsis: An abstract collage from segmented videos, produced and ...
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/ early work, film, Uncategorized, work

AMERICA SELLS

Video, 7 min., 1990 Synopsis: July 1st 1990 marked the day of monetary reunification between East and West Germany. The West ...
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/ capitalism, colonialism, currency, documentary, film, market, Uncategorized, unification, work, zeitportrait

TOAST/ CORNFLAKES

TOAST, film, 16mm, 1986, 1 min. in collaboration with Anne Maar (Super 8 version, 1:30 min) Toast, buttered or not, ...
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/ advertising, consumerism, experimental, film, music, play, Uncategorized, work