Dromosphäre is now available in HD on my Vimeo page. Go here.

Three of my electrophotographies from the Energie! Series will be exhibited by the Collectif d’en Face in Rouen [France] in january.

Currently there’s a mail art exhibition at kunstraum t27 in Berlin [Germany]. I have a little piece there called ‘Dromosphäre Preview’. It’s a DVD with, surprise, a preview of ‘Dromosphäre’ on it. Have a look:

My new film Dromosphäre is finally finished. This film has been with me for a good many years. Originally the idea was to work with a filmic representation / exploration of Einsteinian space-time but it soon took off in another direction and is now about speed. To use two corny quotes that didn’t make it into the film: ‘Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure’ & ”There is more to life than simply increasing its speed’. One is from Mahatma Gandhi and the other from Aldous Huxley, I guess it’s not to hard to figure out which belongs to whom. Anyway, it’s good to finally get the film out in the world and out of my head. No vimeo link yet but I will post it sometime early 2010. For now here’s a still that also didn’t actually make it into the film.

I will have another film battle with/vs my friend Telemach Wiesinger at Stuttgarter Filmwinter [Germany] and at Kommunales Kino in Freiburg [Germany] in january. Expect some Super 8, some 16mm and some chaos.

Maarten Kat just sent me this cool photo by Pieter Kers of the public space installation of Dromosphere at this year’s Impakt:

The book Generative Gestaltung by Julia Laub, Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Gross and Claudius Lazzeroni is out. I wrote a small article about Gestalt for it. Haven’t received my copy yet but it looks really nice judging from the preview PDF that I have. Check out the website where you’ll find more info. It’s available at Amazon. So far it’s only available in German but an English edition will come out soon.

I just discovered the Vimeo page of Tim Macmillan’s time-slice films. The first piece I saw from him was the music video Underwater Love by Smoke City more than ten years ago. I still remember how puzzled I was about how the effect of the splashed water which was frozen in time while the camera was moving around it was achieved. After the video I was thinking about it for a while until I came to the conclusion that he must have used an array of cameras all synchronized with each other. What ingenuity! What a joy now to be able to watch his earlier experiments with this technique and also the later implementations in the commercial pieces. My personal highlights so far are these clips here: early work, weird nature sequence, short explanation of the technique in tomorrow’s world, supernatural, pit stop special and many more. Here’s an interesting article about his work.

Energie! received the first prize at the In Out Festival in Gdansk [Poland]. Thanks a lot.