Sunday 22 November 2009

Car on Fire by Florian Klein


by FK

I took one of my earlier photos and re-edited it differently. If you go back to one of my earlier post you can see the "Red Car" picture. That's the base to the one above.

Saturday 14 November 2009

Heads Or Tails by Florian Klein


by FK

Get up and think! You have always a choice. Do something with it. Are you thinking or are you flipping a coin instead? What are you going to do?

Thursday 12 November 2009

Review: Waltz with Bashir

The animation film Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman is a war- documentary about himself searching for his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon war.

Folman's piece is quite difficult to put into a genre within documentary film making. It is completely animated, what makes it an exciting, cruel and beautiful way to reconstruct his memories, fantasies, hallucinations, possibilities, past and present.

This documentary shows the truth not only in a poetic way, which uses the war event and transforms it into a more abstract, lyrical form, but also gives us a participatory and performative way to connect with us as an audience.

In 1982, Ari Folman himself was a soldier during Israel's first invasion of Lebanon, which makes this film autobiographical. In his visionary search after his lost memories he is the encounter between himself and his friends and comrades, who fought with him during the war. Ari Folman's film is such a breathtaking success, because it has its own style. He can show scenes with immense brutality and cruelty, because it is real, but then not. The film can be classified as animation and documentary as well as history and fiction. Interesting is that Folman first shot his film on video and then assembled an animated version from the resulting storyboards.

All in all Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir is a extraordinary documentary, which is a piece of investigative journalism.

Written by FK

Waltz with Bashir Trailer from Metaverse TV on Vimeo.


Screen Catcher update

For our ScreenCatcher documentary project it is helpful to watch documentary films and review them. It will help us to give our film a genre and style. So my first docu review is on in a bit.
We know in which direction we want to go with our film. It will be a kind of journey docu. We want to go into drug testing/ health trials. That means we follow two different persons around, who will test the medicine.
To find out more about the project go on ScreenCatcher, link in sidebar.
The film 'True Colour' is developing as well.

Saturday 7 November 2009

Church by Florian Klein


Photo by FK

Screen Catcher update and a new Pipe


by FK

Hi guys,

After working last night and this morning on our Screen Catcher website (which gets into form now, check it out:)), i enjoyed the nice sunny morning and made a few photos.

I think i like old rusty pipes.

Thursday 5 November 2009

InLight by Florian Klein


by FK

This collage is created out of four different photos i've taken. Put it together and you get this artwork. Hope you like it.