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LUX SALON: WERNER VON MUTZENBECHER: EVERYDAY ACTIONS \/ ORDINARY OBJECTS 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\u2019s immediate environment, using those characteristics unique to the medium.<\/p>\n Werner Von Mutzenbecher, III\/71, 1971, b\/w, sound, 15 min<\/strong> LUX SALON: WERNER VON MUTZENBECHER: EVERYDAY ACTIONS \/ ORDINARY OBJECTS FILMMAKERS CREDO<\/strong> (Werner Von Mutzenbecher, 2003)<\/p>\n film is a motion-picture 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.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Friday 14 November 2003, at 7:30pm<\/strong>
\nLondon LUX<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWerner Von Mutzenbecher, XIV\/82 Filme, 1982, colour, sound, 21 min<\/strong>
\nWerner Von Mutzenbecher, XV\/84 Vogelhaus, 1984, b\/w, sound, 9 min<\/strong>
\n Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XVI\/84 Fenster III, 1984, b\/w, silent, 4 min<\/strong>
\n Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XVIII\/85 Untergrund, 1985, b\/w, sound, 5 min<\/strong>
\n Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XIX\/88 4 mal 8, 1988, colour, silent, 3 min<\/strong>
\n Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XXIV\/99 Fenster IV, 1999, colour, sound, 3 min<\/strong>
\n Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XXVI\/99\/03 Rencontres, 1999\/2003, b\/w, silent, 2 min<\/strong>
\n Werner Von Mutzenbecher, XXVII\/03 Filmmakers\u2019 Afternoon, 2003, b\/w, silent, 6 min<\/strong><\/p>\nPROGRAMME NOTES<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Friday 14 November 2003, at 7:30pm
\nLondon LUX<\/p>\n
\nfilm is emotion
\nfilm is approachable to everybody
\nfilm is a language with laws to respect
\nexperimental film can be compared to music, to poetry
\nfilm-pictures reach the consciousness and the subconscious
\nfilm is psychology
\nfilm is the most complex medium: time, movement and space are connected
\nfilm is memory
\nfilm is a document of time, places and persons
\nfilm is rhythm, is speed, but can also be slow and quiet
\nfilm is animation
\nfilm occupies the eyes, feeds the fantasy
\nfilm can be more real than reality
\nfilm is between reality and dream
\nfilm can manipulate the truth, film can be dangerous
\nfilm can be realised almost alone like a painting
\nimagination and innovation can be forced by a low budget
\nfilm-pictures can transport ideas and sentiments without words
\nsilence can be like a sound
\nsound can influence the character of the images, can change the atmosphere
\nself-made film-pictures can be perceived as found footage
\nfilmmaker, camera and projection make a fruitful triangle together
\nfilm open doors
\nfilm let feel the relativity of positions
\nfilm produces film
\nfilm constructs a new reality
\nfilm-projection is a moving painting of lights and shadows
\nfilm is an illusion
\nfilm is fugitive like life-time
\nfilm is a travel in space and time
\nfilm is a constant metamorphosis of images taken from reality
\nfilm explore the secrets of visible an invisible things
\nfilm is a mystery<\/p>\n