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TECHNICAL SHEET:
Directed by: Ulrich Fischer
Camera, editing: Ulrich Fischer
Sound design and soundmix: Yann Gioria
Thanks to: Orsola Valenti, Martine Villard, Nathalie Flückiger, Lili Auderset, Conny Voerster.
Format: PAL 4/3 stereo (existe en DV / DVD et BetaSP ou BetaD)
Switzerland, 08.2004
©Perceuse Productions, Ulrich Fischer
In collaboration with SF DRS, Redaktion Sternstunden et le collectif ZebraLab

4 SHORT FILMS

Experimental
analogical

(V.O.Fr.: 4 COURTES PIECES)
4 short video clips by Ulrich Fischer

 

These visual offerings rest on the unlikely alliance between Super-8 film and digital technology, and include footage of fragmented pictures or frozen constructions of sheet iron.
These 4 “philosophical clips” were ordered by Swiss German channel SFDRS, and were broadcast during STERNSTUNDEN, a philosophical TV show.
 
BALLAST
A symmetrical grid that manages to uphold and elevate the footage – there can be no movement without ballast…
 
Signs of dismissal (Signes d’éconduite)
Let yourself be carried away by fleeting lines, until the voyage unravels into several tracks: the signs announcing the near completion of the loop.
 
The cranes’ dream city (La ville révée des grues)
Somewhere between the city’s map and its actual layout, cranes have a story to tell.
 
MI RAGE
What happens when moving objects stop their movement and become a fixed object marking their space? They can become a place’s memory, something to encourage us to entertain new relations with our surroundings.

DETAILS:
All the footage was shot on Super-8 film, some of it was hand-developed at ZebraLab laboratory, and then digitally transferred to an optical digital printer, especially installed for that purpose at ZebraLab. The machine enables to individually scan Super-8 images at a resolution of 2000×1260 via a Nikon D1, in order to keep as much detail as possible in the end result.

 DISTRIBUTION:
– “Genève fait son cinéma”, 2004.
– Exposure, par LUX à Londres, 2004.
– Présentation online au festival Fluxus au Brésil, dès mai 2005.
– Festival VideoEx à Zürich, mai 2005
– Nomination de “Ballast” au Internationaler Medien Preis für Wissenschaft und Kunst en Allemagne. Il sera à cette occasion diffusé sur plusieurs chaînes européennes courant de l’année.
– Diffusion de “Ballast”, ZKM à Munich, 2005
– “La ville rêvée des grues” et “MI RAGE” au festival Media Forum à Moscou, juin 2005
– media art festival, Erevan, Arménie, 2005
– “Ballast”, festival Videomedeja à Novi Sad, 2005
– International Short Film Festival Leuven, 2005
– “Signes d’éconduite” et “La ville révée des grues”, Kultur Büro Barcelona, 2005
– festival Rencontres Int. Paris-Berlin à Paris, 2005
– “Ballast” et de “Signes d’éconduite”, festival Vidéoformes à Clermont-Ferrand, 2006

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