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This is an abstract film.
Understanding the need and requirement for words that allow viewers an easier access to my work I will do my best to supply this.
However, the original idea behind this work does not include any description in words as this film is asking for your attention during the experience of it.
I want to initiate a free flow of associations and imaginations, want to trigger inspiration in the audience, a process that should stay outside my control.
The film has a structure that is embedded - as I hope - invisibly in it.
Visual and acoustic aspects are assembled to sound and look like something familiar, but there is nothing specific that I want the audience to expect or recognize.
An easy way to describe the film would be: It seems to be a thunderstorm in a reddish jungle.
But that’s only one possible interpretation and I am as happy with it as I would be with any other.
That’s why a synopsis or description could be misleading with this film.
If it would include a narrative, a story or anything that should get explained or described in addition to the experience itself it would look and sound differently.
If someone else wants to talk or write about the film from an outside perspective I would not mind that at all.
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Holger LangDirector
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Holger LangWriter
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Holger LangProducer
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Project Type:Animation, Experimental, Short, Other
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Runtime:4 minutes
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Completion Date:July 9, 2016
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Production Budget:1,234 EUR
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Country of Origin:Austria
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Country of Filming:Austria
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Shooting Format:Digital
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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:No
Distribution Information
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Holger LangCountry: WorldwideRights: All Rights
Holger Lang is an Austrian artist and filmmaker, living and working in Vienna. His artistic focus reaches from abstract and conceptual work to experimental and interdisciplinary projects. Traveling extensively he has been invited to numerous lectures, presentations, conferences and festivals in Europe, the US and Japan. For over 20 years he is teaching animation, media arts and aesthetics for an American university at one of their satellite locations in Austria and also their main campus in St.Louis. Holger Lang is organising academic symposia in Vienna and Zagreb and he is curating programs of European and Austrian animation and experimental films for various venues. In addition he is managing and curating an independent gallery in Vienna and for several years he is one of the board members of ASIFA AUSTRIA where he is supporting, promoting and distributing contemporary Austrian animation. His own artistic output in film, experimental animation and fine arts has been shown in solo and group screenings and exhibitions for more than 25 years. Originally born in Germany he grew up in rural Austria, spent several years in the US and UK and – for now – settled in Vienna