Experimental Film by Telemach Wiesinger
Content:
On the road a lot because of his photographic work, Telemach Wiesinger decided to take a small reel of 16 mm film on each of his trips around the world. In every country, he carefully selected a location and his contributors (not to say performers!) and captured a scene of 2 minutes and 45 seconds each. With his colleague, filmmaker and cutter Wolfgang Lehmann, he chose 12 episodes from this material and combined them in an imaginary space.
Rather than to document one trip, one town or one country, »LANDED (RE EDITION)« creates the impression of a travel journey, allowing a glimpse through the eyes of this traveller. The 38-minute film shows the aesthetic experience of the film’s author, photographer Telemach Wiesinger, and tells its story through the subjects and objects of his choice.
The American artist Mario M. Muller compared this filmed poem to the Japanese verses of the ‘Haiku’, and contributed his ‘Orion series’. In their own way, his key sculptures reflect something of Wiesinger’s puzzling play with locations, objects and characters. »The world is a system of signs«, Wiesinger says, »you have the freedom to see what you want, and you can solve the puzzle, but only for yourself”.
»LANDED (RE EDITION)« is about a space that is likely to be somewhere in ‘nowhere land’, without trying to sell something. Not an entertaining story for the cinema, not a life experience, nor a fashion. This experimental film doesn’t take a political stand or address a social question either. This poem of pictures creates an imaginative emptiness for memories and thoughts – of its author, as well as of the audience. It is the sketch for a picture garden in which each one of us is free to indulge in a daydream within Wiesinger’s imaginary world, our personal associations freed up by his precise timings and set order.
Text by Leonard Wolf and Stephen Deadalus (English version by Claudia Wiesinger):
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German premiere: European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, D
Festivals:
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück / Germany
Screenings:
Kommunales Kino Freiburg / Germany
University of Illinois Chicago at Chicago, School of Art + Design / U.S.A.
T66 Gallery Freiburg, Germany
Museum Smallingerland, NL
Cast:
The Sculptures: Mario Muller
Team: Wolfgang Lehmann, Claudia Heimer, Michael Wiesinger
The Edit: Wolfgang Lehmann
Camera, Sound & Production: Telemach Wiesinger
Technical details:
16mm / Optical Sound / black & white / 1:1,33 / 38 Minutes / Germany
Press commentary:
»Wiesinger hat uns die Schlüssel an die Hand gegeben, der Welt Details zu entlocken, die im Bilderfluss des Kinos nomalerweise untergehen.«
Mathias Heybrock, ZUS