| -VIDEO - LEGENDS - |
I put myself in an uncanny, weird state by reading spooky swiss-myths and fables. Then i wander with my videocamera through the countryside of switzerland, allways close to the suburbs of little swiss cities and i record everything that looks legendary, incredible, eerie or just frightening. it means i didn´t search for images, rather the fables comes to my images.
The making of images become a mythical ritual act. By using visual methods i explore the edge between subjective images and a landscape cultivated for purposes of agriculture and stockbreeding. I try to trace the cultural identity in the fables and myths. so videofables is not a product, rather the end of a process. I read about 200 swiss-myths and fables. most of the tales describe short incidents or occurrences.
The complexity of the fables is rather located in signs and states then in a dramaturgy-structure. There are is a hunger-demon which eats his own heel, a magic „hex-cats“, a burning man in a toolbox, nightmares called „toggeli“, a horse without head, processions of dead persons, poor souls and the ghost of a cow´s maw...
Background of the fables is the material misery and threatening circumstances in the alps and not a psychological romanticism of effulgent mountaineers. often it´s a brutal daily hunger, aggressive landscape, loneliness, poverty and belief in destiny which are reflected in the tales. still the basic problems of our civilization... |
| Mit freundlicher Unterstützung: NAIRS / Atelier-Stipendium / Janet Haufler |
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| Videostills: © Ariane Andereggen |