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Phantome flight

Darya Cherkashina — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:30:59 +0000

A film-essay delving into the memories of war and their enduring omnipresence that appears never-ending. Drawing upon personal and autobiographical considerations, the movie follows the imprints left by the experience of war. With the persistent emergence of new violent conflicts, they continue to exert a lasting influence on one’s emotional realm and familial bonds.

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Myriam Thyes – After Tiepolo (old)

VideoArchiveAdmin — Fri, 19 May 2017 21:42:08 +0000

At the Wurzburg Residenz, Thyes recorded the famous 18th century ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Gyratory video sequences are the basis for an animated collage. Tiepolo’s catholic sky/heaven is slowly filled with planets, stars, and galaxies – they substitute the allegoric figures. Science and technology are developing, human production on earth increases: High-rises and power plants replace Tiepolo’s merchants, artists, and craftspeople. The buildings reach to the sky and hide the view on it. The Christian and Eurocentric view of the world is enlarged, enriched, updated. But our knowledge of the infinite universe won’t lead to a broader mind or serenity, as long as we – living complicated lives in modern civilizations – focus only on ourselves.

Thanks to: Guido Magnaguagno, Visarte Zurich, the Bavarian Palace Department at the Wurzburg Residenz. Astronomical images: Courtesy NASA / JPL-Caltech.

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Smart Pantheon (Short Version) (old)

VideoArchiveAdmin — Fri, 19 May 2017 21:33:07 +0000

Director, concept, camera, editing, effects, sound: Myriam Thyes

2nd camera and 2nd sound recording: Monika Pirch

Alpha channel masks: Nikolaus Burhenne

Hands of various people use their smartphones. The displays don’t show any app – only the sensual movements of the hands count. Each pair of hands plays both roles from Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” at the Sistine Chapel: God father and Adam, whos fingers touch each other. Smartphones are the new saints to which we cling and who guide us on our ways – they are the amulets of our time.

This short version is for all sorts of screenings, from very small (e.g. in a smartphone) to larger monitors or cinema screens.

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