Bourbon Street Blues is made after Tennessee Williams' play The Lady Larkspur Lotion.
"In a rundown French Quarter boarding house, Mrs Hardwick-Moore, a faded beauty in an alcoholic tailspin, chooses to remain blanketed in her delusional dream world, despite its conflict with the reality presented to her by a brusque landlady. This brief, yet intensely evocative, character stud...
A montage of documented industrial architecture and cityscapes of Berlin
and scenes from Ulrike Ottingers Berlin Trilogy:
Ticket of No Return
Freak Orlando
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Selected industrial and city settings from the three films were documented again for Usinimage and intercut with the corresponding fiction film scenes, in order to give the lands...
This little patchwork of car-racing archive footage tries to show the symbolic meaning of a race regarding the mechanization of the world. Technic is more and more about to control the humans, and not backwards. This truly "not new" assumptions remember to the "Frankfurter Schule" with their critics on mechanization. Some of you maybe remember Jürgen Habermas "colonializaton of...
The elephant made of ivory is a cycle of eight dances of death in which one performance artist is interacting with a skull. A young woman climbs up the stairs, opens a bird cage filled with feathers and lets the feathers fly into the backyard. She starts to dance inside of a vast, empty, silvery shining warehouse. There is a notion of alienation within these images since the fi...
“The title refers to Japanese landscape painting on rolls. Furthermore it indicates the film’s theme, the balance of colors (blurred tones of blue, green and grey) and the type of montage that gives priority to continuity of development rather than to disruption and contrast. This continuity is achieved by dissolvings and double exposures and by extremely long pans. The rhythm ...
