Nothing is closer to us than our skin. Its beautiful and less beautiful parts envelop the self, separate it from all else. A foray along naked parts of the body takes us from a shiny ridge via a rounded protuberance to a shady gorge. A neck. A belly…ear. A fellybear? Photos, videoclips and sounds form an irritating body collage.
Magnificent works of art made of fruit once lent the Chinese restaurant business a radiant glamour. Today they are overshadowed by a heavily economised food culture.
A giant ginger mountain landscape that five cooks spent a week to make: Once magnificent culinary works of art were created in Chinese restaurants. Food was associated with a wealth of money and time. The world today is short-lived, customers have become few and far between. Chefs talk about the connection between food culture and socio-economic change in China.
Life instructions from nowhere: “Take a deep breath, say YEEES!” But the anonymous guru becomes a chattering flâneur through his own psychedelic universe of problems.
A voice from nowhere proclaims life instructions: “Take a deep breath, say YEEES! … and stop being boring!” But rules and authority gradually elude the anonymous instructor. He becomes a chattering, contradictory flâneur through the universe of his problem-fraught private affairs. Those therapy units have a really sneaky design.
André Eckardt
Credits
Director
Patrick Buhr
Script
Patrick Buhr
Editor
Patrick Buhr
Producer
Ute Dilger
Sound
Marvin Horsch, Donghee Nam, Jonathan Kastl
Animation
Patrick Buhr
Narrator
Erik Hansen
Performer
Vanja Smiljanić, Sina Seifee, Lia Sudermann, Matthias Conrady
Waiting people in the noise of the city. They begin to move. For a fleeting moment their lifelines are entwined and they unconsciously take part in a choreography of chance.
Waiting people in the noise of the city. They begin to move, passing each other. Their portraits overlap, their bodies briefly collapse and for a fleeting moment form abstract time-space shapes. From the repetition and multiplication of the encounters emerges a daily accidental choreography of lifelines in urban space: delicate, intransparent and widely ramified.