fade IN fade OUT
‘(…) they are almost always thrown around. And even if they don’t fall over right away, then at the end (…) and when the lamps go out in a fight scene, the film is still in bright light (…)“ ‘ – Excerpt from an interview between Veronika Hösch and Elisabeth Kemeter.
fade IN fade OUT
4 channel video installation, video loop, sound
Duration: 06 min. 28 sec. | Format: 16:9 | 4 K
No light, no film. In mainstream cinema productions, and the James Bond film series in particular, lamps sometimes play a dramaturgically key role. They are often knocked down as the trigger for, or as a result of, a fight and frequently they get broken dramatically.
In the four-video-channel-installation fade IN fade OUT they become the main actors at the centre of events. The video recording, which is simultaneously the light source of the room, shows images of four lamps, which back-to-back fade-in and fade-out in real-screen-time. The new arranged sound pieces, which are extracted from the James Bond film series, are in evidence in between the dark light sequences. Again and again, just at the point in a film where lamps are involved in turbulent action scenes – falling over, breaking, imploding, clanking, exploding, hissing, etc. – the audience thrusts into an dramatic sound collage, which are the James Bond film series lamps last breaths. The sound excerpts enfold a time period of 50 film years. At both video levels the lamp becomes a performer. The lamps, which are shown in the video recording, are borrowed from the private collection of lamp-shade-maker Elisabeth Kemeter, who made in 1989 two blue lampshades for the James Bond film The Living Daylights. They were, however not to be seen in the final version of the film and the original designs no longer exist.
CREDITS
Concept, Sound & Editing by:
Veronika Hösch
Cinematography by:
Lukas Schöffel
Post-production by:
Thomas Rath
Post-sound production by:
Septian Dwi Cahyo
Stage Lightning by:
Felix Krisai & Roman Soboszek
DISPLAYED AT
VAFA – Video Art For All 2018 | International Video Art Festival, Macau (CN) 2018
San Mauro Film Festival, Turino (IT) 2018
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, (DE) 2017
LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv, (UKR) 2017
Veronika Burger – even if the lights go out, there is still light., Startgalerie, MUSA – Museum Startgalerie Museum, Wien (AT) 2017
Blickle Archive Series #24 – Veronika Burger, Blickle Kino im 21er Haus, Belvedere, Wien (AT) 2017