Date: 14 November 2003 | Season: LUX Salon
LUX SALON: WERNER VON MUTZENBECHER: EVERYDAY ACTIONS / ORDINARY OBJECTS
Friday 14 November 2003, at 7:30pm
London LUX
The first ever UK solo screening for this established Swiss artist, who will present a selection of his films from 1971 to present. Mutzenbecher began painting in 1958 and filmmaking in 1968, and has exhibited regularly in Switzerland and Europe. Apparently mundane actions and objects are the focus of his films, which blur the boundaries between materiality, portraiture and performance. The early works are more performative, while later films take a diaristic, personal approach to create impressions of Mutzenbecher’s immediate environment, using those characteristics unique to the medium.
Werner Von Mutzenbecher, III/71, 1971, b/w, sound, 15 min
Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XIV/82 Filme, 1982, colour, sound, 21 min
Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XV/84 Vogelhaus, 1984, b/w, sound, 9 min
Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XVI/84 Fenster III, 1984, b/w, silent, 4 min
Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XVIII/85 Untergrund, 1985, b/w, sound, 5 min
Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XIX/88 4 mal 8, 1988, colour, silent, 3 min
Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XXIV/99 Fenster IV, 1999, colour, sound, 3 min
Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XXVI/99/03 Rencontres, 1999/2003, b/w, silent, 2 min
Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XXVII/03 Filmmakers’ Afternoon, 2003, b/w, silent, 6 min
PROGRAMME NOTES
LUX SALON: WERNER VON MUTZENBECHER: EVERYDAY ACTIONS / ORDINARY OBJECTS
Friday 14 November 2003, at 7:30pm
London LUX
FILMMAKERS CREDO (Werner Von Mutzenbecher, 2003)
film is a motion-picture
film is emotion
film is approachable to everybody
film is a language with laws to respect
experimental film can be compared to music, to poetry
film-pictures reach the consciousness and the subconscious
film is psychology
film is the most complex medium: time, movement and space are connected
film is memory
film is a document of time, places and persons
film is rhythm, is speed, but can also be slow and quiet
film is animation
film occupies the eyes, feeds the fantasy
film can be more real than reality
film is between reality and dream
film can manipulate the truth, film can be dangerous
film can be realised almost alone like a painting
imagination and innovation can be forced by a low budget
film-pictures can transport ideas and sentiments without words
silence can be like a sound
sound can influence the character of the images, can change the atmosphere
self-made film-pictures can be perceived as found footage
filmmaker, camera and projection make a fruitful triangle together
film open doors
film let feel the relativity of positions
film produces film
film constructs a new reality
film-projection is a moving painting of lights and shadows
film is an illusion
film is fugitive like life-time
film is a travel in space and time
film is a constant metamorphosis of images taken from reality
film explore the secrets of visible an invisible things
film is a mystery
About ten years after the beginning of my painting career I realised my first film and I also began to write. Since these days, I continue painting, filmmaking and writing with more or less intensity. To be able to speak different languages opened to me a larger spectrum of expression. I like the complexity and the possibilities inside the film and I am still curious to see what I can do by myself with a camera.
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