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 Thomas Kutschker Obscure Lights Academy of Media Arts Deutscheland 1996, 14’ At daytime there is light. Stories about artificial light from three centuries telling anecdotes about the former sights to our world. Words, sounds and pictures seem to be independent, disconnected as the appearance of light itself, if you try to understand it. But they are woven into each other. Following their own logical construction. Looking back at the times of celluloid the shadows in these images, where one sees the grain, tell more stories than bright and short cut pictures.Take a walk in a town that seems to be silent – that is made out of parts of different towns. Views that make you curious to discover the world at night in front of your doors. Streets, passages, housing and industrial areas – details and perspectives, which remain unregarded during the day, tell stories in their shadows and reflexions, which appear at night. Surfaces, which seem to be built for a movie and are set alive by light and filmstock. Macro images of lightsources bring closer the immateriality of light. A subjective world made out of stories, music and images. Where there is light, there is day. Thomas Kutschker is a graduate of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. His final film project at the academy, “The Dark Lights”, is an essayistic investigation of the history and perception of artificial light in cities. The film‘s structure resembles an unprejudiced, curiously searching look. The subsequent documentary film, “John E. Loskot – The Lost hero” tells the story of a man who had the dream of reclaiming the desert and then suddenly disappeared. “The Vanishing Border” focuses on the discrepancies between the individual, subjective memory and official historiography, and the differences and irritation that result. His photography and video work from the phase of radical change and the fall of the wall make up part of the film. Observing how the traces of the wall of Berlin disappeared under new layers of concrete provided the inspiration for this project. The cinematic translation combines information, documentary observation, and artistic images to produce an atmospherically tight, contradictory approach to ‘the zone’. |
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