Abstract

An attempt to remake a film by destroying it. To make it even more frightening than it ever dared to be, by letting the film attack my own viewing and editing machines. And have my viewing practices attack the film. When Alfred Hitchcock for his 1963 film THE BIRDS instead of natural audio used electronic sounds created by German composer Oskar Sala, he did so because of the ability of these disturbing sound objects „to vibrate on more than just one level“. The electronic sound of the birds not only oversteps the boundary between living being and machine, but also between the content and form, as if the shrieking sounds of the birds not only attack the characters within the film but he film itself. It is this I tried not only to capture, but to amplify – unbearably. From sound to image, from cinema to video, and back. The video received a special mention at the Videoex. International Experimental Film & Video Festival 2021 – Jury statement: „The exploration of the filmic archive material by destroying image and sound creates a new composition and reading of a world-famous film sequence. The work is in the tradition of video art and goes back to the beginnings of Nam June Paik’s experimental exploration of television and video images. An experiment through a relatively simple technical process creates an intense, almost intoxicating effect.“