Rikker Lida – Cyland Video Archive https://videoarchive.cyland.org Video Archive Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.25 Dolls https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/dolls/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:53:38 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=12244 “Who do children’s dolls smile at innocently? What do their older versions, the mannequins in shop windows, keep silent about? Using found footage of a study of Freud’s “The Uncanny” (Unheimlichkeit), the director peers into the depths of childhood fears. For almost 7 minutes, together with the author we try to understand what it means … Continue reading "Dolls"

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]]> “Who do children’s dolls smile at innocently? What do their older versions, the mannequins in shop windows, keep silent about? Using found footage of a study of Freud’s “The Uncanny” (Unheimlichkeit), the director peers into the depths of childhood fears. For almost 7 minutes, together with the author we try to understand what it means to be a toy, what it means to be an owner, and how people differ from their plastic doubles”.

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]]> Green on the other side https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/green-on-the-other-side/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:50:45 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=12242 The film “Green on the other side” is a series of breaches across the empty sound of the advertising cover, a clash of contexts causing emotional stress, sometimes a surrealistic gag, sometimes a frightening, alarming scene. The artificialness and falseness of the footage selected is deconstructed intentionally by careless use of the chromakey. The characters … Continue reading "Green on the other side"

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]]> The film “Green on the other side” is a series of breaches across the empty sound of the advertising cover, a clash of contexts causing emotional stress, sometimes a surrealistic gag, sometimes a frightening, alarming scene. The artificialness and falseness of the footage selected is deconstructed intentionally by careless use of the chromakey. The characters reveal their fear of the camera, their lack of confidence, all-too human qualities, while the makers of the stock footage intended them to represent an example of the Ideal. The green color from the saying “the grass is always greener on the other sides”, signifying the constant aspiration towards this Ideal, becomes a guide through an endless corridor, where you can easily lose yourself among social roles and clichés.

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