Copy and Paste
Film evening with Matthias Müller.
879 color / J. Tobias Anderson, MiniDV, 2 min., Sweden 2002, No dialogue. Experimental.
This animated film is based on 879 drawn film stills from Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classic North By Northwest (1959). Starring an animated character á la Cary Grant, the film reimagines the now cliché images.
Fast Film / Virgil Widrich, 35 mm, 14 min., Austria/Luxembourg 2003
A kiss, a happy couple. But suddenly the woman is kidnapped. The man sets out to rescue her. A rescue drama full of wild chases begins. All scenes are taken from 300 different works of film history, and the identity of the heroes changes accordingly often. But it is above all the production technique that is astonishing: 65,000 paper printouts of the source sequences were folded into paper objects, then arranged into complex tableaus and brought to new life with the trick camera, to a tour de force across film history.
Phoenix Tapes / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller, music for Bedroom: Dirk Schaefer, Betacam SP, 47 min, color/bw, D 1999
The Phoenix Tapes are a commissioned production of the Museum of Modern Art Oxford for the exhibition "Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art". In a cycle of 6 videos, the filmmakers assemble a collection of moments from Hitchcock's works such as deserted places, handbags and insane lovers. Through this montage of recurring Alfred Hitchcock leitmotifs, a universal canon of gestures becomes apparent, encompassing both the communication forms of cinema and those of everyday life.
#1 Rutland, #2 Burden of Proof #3 Derailed, #4 Why Don't You Love Me?, #5 Bedroom, #6 Necrologue
Prairie Stop, Highway 41 / J. Tobias Anderson, DV, 9:26 min, Sweden 2004
The source material for this animated film is the famous cornfield scene from Alfred Hitchcock'sNorth By Northwest (1959) - one of the most classic action sequences ever filmed. But this version lacks everything that originally made up the action: people, vehicles and dialogue.