Experiencing Interruptions?

CROSS AND PLANE TO SPACE

The illusionistic ceiling fresco 'Triumph of St. Ignatius of Loyola' (1685) by Andrea Pozzo meets compositions with crosses (1932) by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. While the hierarchic, centralist painting in the Jesuit church Sant'Ignazio glorifies the holy lord, Taeuber-Arp created multifocal, plane compositions of non-figurative shapes. The only thing the baroque and the modern artworks have in common, is the sign of the cross. In the animation, the oppositional artistic concepts start a competitive dialog, they influence and penetrate each other. Given the current victory of virtual worlds, this animation reflects the history of illusionism and its assumed overcoming in modernity.

  • Myriam Thyes
    Director
  • Myriam Thyes
    Writer
  • Myriam Thyes
    Producer
  • Eva-Maria Houben
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    KREUZ UND FLÄCHE ZU RAUM
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
  • Genres:
    video art, stereoscopic 3D, media art, 3D animation, art history
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 3, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Shooting Format:
    HD video, digital animation
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Courant 3D Festival
    Angoulême
    France
    October 12, 2017
    World premiere
    official selection
  • FICOCC Festival
    Anzoategui
    Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
    March 15, 2018
    American premiere
    Best Video Art Award
  • Animation Day in Cannes
    Cannes
    France
    May 12, 2018
    official selection
  • Short Stop Intl. Film Festival
    Iasi
    Romania
    June 12, 2018
    Romanian premiere
    official selection
  • On Art Film Festival
    Łódź
    Poland
    August 18, 2018
    Polish premiere
    official selection
  • Digital Gods / Die Digitale 2018
    Dusseldorf
    Germany
    November 9, 2018
    German premiere
    curated exhibition at WeltKunstZimmer, 9-25 Nov.
Director Biography - Myriam Thyes

Myriam Thyes is a new media artist from Switzerland and Luxembourg, living in Germany. 1986-92 Academy of Fine Arts, Dusseldorf, Prof. Nan Hoover. Since 1994, Thyes participates in exhibitions and festivals internationally. Fundings by: City of Dusseldorf, State of Northrhein-Westfalia, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, State of Luxembourg, City of Graz (Austria), Province of Styria (Austria).
AIR: Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (1990); Glasgow, UK (2008); Styria AIR, Graz, Austria (2015).
Awards: Depict Award, Encounters Festival, Bristol (UK), 2005; MultiMedia Prize, Avanca Festival, Portugal, 2006; Web / New Media Award, AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Toronto (CA), 2017; Best Experimental Award, Near Nazareth Film Festival, Israel.

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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.