The birds' delirium does not interest the trees
Video in collaboration with Nicolai S. Gütermann
30 min
2018
This film opens with a sequence shot using a Super 8 camera at the Josephinum (Museum of Medical History in Vienna) with a voice-over containing an excerpt from the opening text
“The Great Ephemeral Skin” in Jean-François Lyotard’s work, Libidinal Economy. The following sequences are filmed on and off the grounds of a former women’s asylum. Centre hospitalier psychiatrique Montperrin, Aix-en Provence, France. The gestures are anchored in reality, but the resulting ensemble may be likened to a surrealist mental landscape, which in the last sequence, culminates in its most minimal and stripped down form, a wrapping in ribbon of the object, the body and the subject.
– Diane Pigeau, curator, 3 bis f, Aix-en-Provence, France
The birds´delirium does not interest the trees - video (excerpt)
MISE - EN IMAGE, MONTAGE
Nicolai S. Gütermann
MISE - EN SCENE, SCULPTURES
Iris Dittler
PERFORMANCES
Claire Camous, Iris Dittler
Martine Putz-Perrier, Barbara Sarreau
SOUND
Andreas Trobollowitsch
VOICE
Jenny Simanowitz
Text fragments from Économie libidinale by Jean-Francois Lyotard
ASSISTENT
Leslie Astier
TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SCULPTURES
Bartholomus Kinner, Christophe Blancard
DEVELOPMENT AND DIGITALISATION SUPER 8
Paul Krimmer, Stefanie Zingl
PRODUCTION
le Centre d' art 3 bis f, Aix-en-Provence
Iris Dittler, Nicolai S. Gütermann
