Letters from Pocket Embassy

This months cover by Aleksandar Ares,
layout by K.K.W. Cover image is
from the project Rise Of The Young Ones.

Experimental video art @ []Nothing Space. Photos & article by K.K.W

Curators Cristin Anne Hughes (right) & Cylixe

As the world becomes more connected, shared experiences becomes more common, either direct or indirect. However the ability to relate to some else's experience through art, is a matter of the viewer and creator being able to connect.

And while didn't connect with all of the videos screened, they were all creatively well done & interesting none the less.

Scene from "Staedtchen" by Mandy Kerbs.

There was something haunting about "Staedtchen" in its still images, the erie sense of peacefulness to the area, closed off and inaccessible save for certain kind of permit. The work deals with the structures and demarcation of accessibility in public spaces. With the seemingly over-blown security rituals in a place does not need it, you sense the need for this, to give greater meaning something ordinary.      

Scene from "Staedtchen" by Mandy Kerbs.

Scene from "Staedtchen" by Mandy Kerbs.

Scene from "Back street" by Annemarie Blohm

Scene from "PETER IST TOT" (PETER IS DEAD)
by Clemens Wilhelm

"Peter Ist Tot" was probably the best of all the videos screened. Heartfelt in its curiosity, a story simply told consisting of found photographs of a strangers life. A moving, fictive biography is formed making one ask, why does the life of a stranger interest us a times? Can the life of seemingly ordinary person become extraordinary?      

Scene from "PETER IST TOT" (PETER IS DEAD)
by Clemens Wilhelm

Scene from "KEYSTONE"
By Constantin Hartenstein

Scene from "The Plentifulness Paradox"
by Deborah Uhde

Scene from "The Plentifulness Paradox"
by Deborah Uhde

Scene from "Too Much"
By Jochen Isensee

"Too Much" was a hypnotic visual spectacle of media-grotesqueness leading the viewer to a sensation of fearful over-load. You become bound to battlefield of violent suggestions, where the subtitles begin to form a strange textual chain of information. The video is an experimental animation-collage freely adapted from Nietzsche, how he was read by Foucault. 

Scene from "Too Much"
By Jochen Isensee

Scene from "Trip To The Soon"
by Kalle von Karl

Scene from "Mustang Jeans"
by Marko Shiefelbein

"Mustang Jeans" was amazing in that its impact is matched only by the simplicity of the video, and the sublime nature of the idea behind it. The power of the content coming from the woman telling a story that seems unbelievable, yet so real. In a way its almost whimsical when you realize what she's  talking about.

Scene from "Hach Blitzstrudel Hey" by
Kalle Von Karl

Scene from "Army of Bollo - There will be
Mannerchore" by Marius Roth

Scene from "Blue Distortion"
by Frank Bubenzer. 

Scene from "Learning to Fly"
by Julia Richter

Scene from "Florilegiae - a rhapsody in 3 parts"
by Cylixe

Cylixe's video is a visual delight bordering on a lucid dream. The viewer moves from one thing to the next with little time to consider, only a quick-fix of constant changing scenes with a perfect voice-over narration, about the chemical make-up of the human body. One can see a frightening interpretation of high intensity urban life, fueled by caffeine and possibly other kinds of drugs. Its visually arresting, drawing you into an extended moment thats real, and a dream.     

Scene from "THE OVO (Ovo - the Video)
by Michael Brynntrup

Scene from "THE OVO (Ovo - the Video)
by Michael Brynntrup

Curators Cristin Anne Hughes (right) & Cylixe

If you would like to know more, go to:www.mandykrebs.de, www.clemenswilhelm.com, www.fruehfeuer.com, www.duhde.de, www.jooki.de, www.kallekarl.org, https://vimeo.com/52149611, www.frankbubenzer.de, www.juliacharlotterichter.com, www.cylixe.net, www.brynntrup.de, www.nothingspace.org "Art is the reason, art is the way"