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EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK 2011 - Emaf

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FOUR SEASONS<br />

Keren Cytter<br />

Eine absurde, erfundene, low-fi Mischung aus verschiedenen Filmgenres: Film noir, Thriller, Seifenoper, Dokumentarfilm<br />

und Melodram. Das Video beginnt mit dramatischer Musik; künstliches Blut tropft auf Badezimmerfliesen,<br />

Schneeflocken wirbeln durch ein Apartment und eine Frau steigt eine Treppe hinauf. Sie stellt sich<br />

als Lucy vor und sagt, sie beschwere sich über die Musik - und findet dann einen nackten, blutenden Mann vor,<br />

der aus einer Badewanne steigt. Die Erzählung wird immer komplexer und unzusammenhängender, als der<br />

Mann beginnt, die Frau Stella zu nennen - eine Anlehnung an Tennessee Williams ›A Streetcar Named Desire‹.<br />

Von diesem Moment an werden verschiedenen Handlungen miteinander verflochten und immer mehr visuelle<br />

Klischees und low-fi Spezialeffekte werden eingesetzt. Kameraarbeit und Dialoge sind bewusst amateurhaft;<br />

eine Vielzahl an Anspielungen aus Film und Literatur werden gemacht: surrealistische Erzählkunst, Avantgarde-Dramaturgie,<br />

Filme von Polanski und Stephen King. Eine eher neutrale Off-Stimme trägt einen Text über labyrinthische<br />

Architektur vor, beeinflusst von Borges Kurzgeschichte ›The Immortal‹.<br />

An absurdist, phony, low-fi mixture of a variety of film genres: film noir, thriller, soap opera, documentary and<br />

melodrama. The video opens with dramatic music; fake blood drips on bathroom tiles, snowflakes whirl through<br />

an apartment and a woman climbs a staircase. She introduces herself as Lucy and says she is complaining<br />

about the music - and then finds a naked, bleeding man rising out of a bath tub. The narrative becomes more<br />

and more complex and incoherent when the man starts calling the woman Stella - a reference to Tennessee<br />

Williams' ›A Streetcar Named Desire‹. From that point, various story-lines are interwoven and more and more<br />

visual clichés and low-fi special effects are introduced. Camera work and dialogue are deliberately kept amateurish;<br />

a multitude of filmic and literary references are touched upon: surrealist storytelling, avant-garde<br />

dramaturgy, movies by Polanski and Stephen King. A rather neutral voice-over recites a text about labyrinthine<br />

architecture, influenced by Borges' short story ›The Immortal‹.<br />

Keren Cytter, *1977 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli visual artist. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Cytter<br />

studied at the Avni Institute for Art in Tel Aviv from 1997 to 1999. After some success within Israel, she moved to<br />

Amsterdam to further her studies on a scholarship from De Ateliers in 2002. Since finishing her studies in 2004,<br />

Cytter's work has been shown internationally in group and solo exhibitions. In addition to working with video, Cytter<br />

is a published writer of journals, novels and poems. Both in writing and cinematography, her works challenge<br />

the conventions of genres and language.<br />

�D 2009, Video, 12:19<br />

�Realisation Keren Cytter<br />

�Distribution Netherlands Media Art Institute<br />

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