Private Project

Study for Clouds

STUDY FOR CLOUDS is a post-experimental poetic trip filmed from the perspective of the contemporary traveller: from a commercial airliner. It deals with the transformation of nature in the eye of modern man, with clouds as the main protagonists mediating between landscape, beauty and hell.

  • Jyrgen Ueberschär
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 10, 2022
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany, Greece, Spain, Switzerland
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 28. Openeyes Filmfestival
    Marburg
    Germany
    July 22, 2023
    German Premiere
  • 9. Les jours des éphémères
    Olten
    Switzerland
    August 19, 2022
    Swiss Premiere
  • 28. Openeyes Filmfestival
    Marburg
    Germany
    Audience Award
  • Kiez Berlin Film Festival Berlin 2024
    Berlin
    Germany
    Best Experimental Film
  • Indie Movies Spark Film Festival 2023
    Utrecht
    Netherlands
    Best Experimental / Art Film
  • Hercules Independent Film Festival 2023
    Seville
    Spain
    Official Selection
  • Ponza Film Awards Italy 2024
    Ponza
    Italy
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Jyrgen Ueberschär

Jyrgen Ueberschär (*1978) studied media art from 2002-2008 at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe (HfG/ZKM) with Lois Renner and Elger Esser and with Jürgen Klauke at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In his photography, installations and film works, Ueberschär develops spatial scenarios at the interface between reality and fiction. He has had numerous screening, solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Holland, Spain, Korea, Italy, France, Switzerland and China. Workshops and lectures, among others at the Academy of Art Nuremberg and the Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne; He lives and works in Berlin and Zurich, where he teaches at the Department of Fine Arts of Zurich University of the Art.

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Director Statement

STUDY FOR CLOUDS is a poetic journey through the clouds and goes through various mutations in loosely connected one-shot sequences. It oscillates between different levels of depth of field and blurs into the dark as it enters the clouds until the viewer is quickly seized by a sense of vertigo.
The view goes from the earth up into the clouds, which - once in view - have already undergone a change. Clouds are difficult to observe because they are constantly in motion - a constant becoming and passing away: A spatial structure of lost time in eternal transformation. If you devote yourself to clouds and their study—you`re lost.