Video

Ultraviolet

Christoph Oertli

1996, 10:00 minutes, colour/B&W

TAPECODE 657.10

This videotape deals with the opposition between brutality and tenderness. The connection of those extremes bear relations between a criminal and his victim. The focus is put here on a more subtle form of oppression. Very often the victims aren't aware of any harassment, bearing it without defending themselves while the offender is acting unconsciously, without noticing the consequences.

This point of view unite s the lack of sensitivity and the lack of courage defining a principle which includes the whole range of dynamic elements.

The videotape is intended as a one-act musical piece. A long crescendo will lead from silence to chaos, on both levels (audio and image). The extremes of brutality and tenderness will be understood as the musical terms of forte and piano.
Audio-visual material: close up of the face of a young man, as a witness of the events around him. Moving and sounding materials like liquids and chemical reactions in pet-bottles, tiny glass pearls hitting on a surface, natures - mortes animated by reflecting them on the moving surface of water.

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