RAUSCH
Rausch(e)s genitive ,
Räusche [ˈrɔyʃə ] plural(= Trunkenheit) intoxication
(= Drogenrausch) high (inf)sich dative einen Rausch antrinken=to get drunk
einen Rausch haben=to be drunk
etw im Rausch tun/sagen=to do/say sth while under the influence (of alcohol or drink)
seinen Rausch ausschlafen=to sleep it off
Rausch is the narration of a night, or many nights, a celebration, the observation of a queer Dionysian state. Its form changes depending on the circumstance as well as by the personas that alternate and define it. It is not necessarily presented as a literal intoxication but also as an emotional one. The subject experiences a communion, a spiritual encounter that co-exists with a rapture, the division of the soul, its departure from the Sensible World. The individual limits fade away, the subjects lose their outlines and their privacy; they cling to a dissimilarity that lacks a specific shape. The body turns into a place of observation, its pulse, its signs and its facial expressions recorded. As every state of influence and intoxication evolves, it registers on the body, leaving its mark behind.
Rausch is dedicated in memory of Zak / Zakie Oh who was brutally assassinated on September of 2018 in the center of Athens in public view.
#justice4ZakZackie
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Vera ChotzoglouDirector
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Vera ChotzoglouCamera
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Vera ChotzoglouWriter
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Vera ChotzoglouProducer
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Konstantinos DelaviniasKey Cast"Starring"
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Polyxeni Michalopoulou / Chloe Pare-Anastasiadou / Callikratis Vougioukalakis / Florian Goltz / Ferghus Carmichael / Damhnaic O' MhailleKey Cast
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Giorgos Frogoudakis (ΦΡΟ)Original Music
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Elpiniki GelagotiSound Design
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Pola SieverdingNarration
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Student, Other
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Runtime:35 minutes 27 seconds
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Completion Date:September 27, 2018
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Production Budget:0 EUR
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Country of Origin:Greece
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Country of Filming:Germany, Greece
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Language:German
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Shooting Format:Full HD/mini dv
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:Yes
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6th Athens BiennaleAthens
Greece
November 11, 2018
Greek Premiere -
Athens School of Fine ArtsAthens
Greece -
Inshort Film FestivalLagos
Nigeria
Official Selection -
Foto WienVienna
Austria
March 21, 2019 -
Hacker Porn Film FestivalRome
Italy
April 30, 2019
Official selection -
Centropia / Vorspiel Transmediale & CTM BerlinBerlin
Germany
January 26, 2020
Vera Chotzoglou is a Visual artist working with time based media. She is an Athens School of Fine arts’ BA & MFA graduate, Department of Visual Arts, Fine Arts & Art Education (2013-2018). She had studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with an Erasmus+ scholarship, Fine Arts & Art Education (2016-2017) with professors Jorinde Voigt & Stephan Dillemuth She has participated in various workshops, such as;"Writing and directing for documentary..." by Robert Rombout, 5th Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival, Kalamata, Greece (2019), "No questions, please!" Interviews as an artistic practice in film and video art" by Antonia Rahofer, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece (2018), “Stay in Touch”, Athens School of fine Arts, Athens, Greece (2018), Sound Workshop by Paul Paulon, Studio Jorinde Voigt, Berlin Germany (2017).
She was awarded with the Scholarship to cover Degree Expenses from Athens School of Fine arts (2018),audience award for the short film “Munich almost killed me ½” at 2th Piraeus Film Festival in Athens(2018) and SNF Artist Fellowship Award by Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2019)
She has exhibited internationally at A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Berlin, Hacker Porn Film Festival, Rome, Platforms project, Athens, Foto Wien, Austria, 6th Athens Biennale, Athens, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki,2th Pireus Film Festival,Athens, Belleve di Monaco, Munich, TAF Gallery, Athens et al. Vera Chotzoglou currently lives and works in Athens, Greece
Vera Chotzoglou is a visual artist currently working with time-based media. Her objective is to create documents, recording moments and happenings. Her artistic work is a developing process which starts with the meaning of memory and it ends with the trace that left behind. Her work is formulated and determined in consideration like time, place and space. Provided that all this are intense instability, there is no fixed content in her work. Sometimes it can be very inner and sometimes more scathing or sarcastic. But Chotzoglou is not using memory only as a remebrance, it has a great meaning for her but it changes all the time, it can be translated as political or historical memory. Her Film and photographic works show a developing her own artistic language through which she offers the viewer to contemplate questions of place with all it’s implications of nationalities, borders, travelling from one place to another, cultural specifications and social meaning, the individual body and mind as prism for the social body, political engagement and poetic commentary.