PINBALL ALTAR

The video shows the surfaces of three pinball machines (which often look rather “baroque”) beside each other, like a triptych of christian altar paintings. Various pinball machines were filmed with cameras attached to gamblers. This way, you watch the blinking field through cameras which adopt the typical (sometimes erotical) movements of the players. The video is edited in a way the ball always remains visible, never disappearing from the field. The game never ends – because “all joy wants eternity” (Friedrich Nietzsche).

With thanks to: Pinball Machines Museum Schwerin, Arne Hennes, Anne-Kathrin Auel, Ulf Michaelis.

  • Myriam Thyes
    Director
  • Myriam Thyes
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Other
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 13 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 29, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    400 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    UHD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Myriam Thyes

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Director Statement

My themes and visual researches deal with powerful symbols, myths and signs from architecture, society, politics, movies and religions. My artworks are explorations of their meanings, a questioning, reevaluation, and creations of new associations. In order to undermine entrenched representations, I work directly with them, contradict or re-interpret them with visual means, or focus on their hidden aspects. Using video, animation, collage, abstraction, and found footage, well-known figures undergo transformations, start to communicate and build new relations. Symbols of identities turn into elements of dialogues.