Private Project

reality island is elsewhere

The animation „reality island is elsewhere“ is about a humanoid protagonist named Rose who is in search of „her“ personal reality. A game, reminiscent of earlier TV shows, forms the narrative framework of this work. Against this backdrop the troubled and sensitive character Rose attempts, with the help of her avatar Tessa, to experience her body and various spaces in a performative way and to reflect her subjective reality within this game. Personal thoughts and memories of the character Rose flow, overlapping each other, into the storyline and determine the rhythm of the animation.

  • katrin niedermeier
    Director
  • katrin niedermeier
    Writer
  • katrin niedermeier
    Producer
  • Legion Seven
    voice
  • Aebersold Markus
    sound
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Virtual Reality
  • Runtime:
    21 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 19, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Switzerland
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    HD 16:9
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Baselland
    Switzerland
    August 26, 2019
    world premiere
Director Biography - katrin niedermeier

Before her studies at the Institut Kunst HGK, FHNW in Basel Katrin Niedermeier studied fashion de- sign at Esmod in Munich and Oslo and worked as a designer for Christian Dior and Jeanne Lanvin in Paris and Nicky Hilton in Los Angeles.
Recent exhibitions and video screenings include „I and the Machine“ Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Freiburg, „Avatare, Doppelgänger und allegorische Landschaften“ HEK, Basel (2019) HEK, “Kaliningrad Museum of Fine Arts “, Kaliningrad: “videocity Basel – Kaliningrad”, TBA21-Academy, The Current ll, Chus Martinez, Convening #2: Phenomenal Ocean Space, Venice, 2019, „ihood“ at Kunsthaus Baselland (2019), „color your color“ Ewha Media Art Presentation, (EMAP), in Seol (2019), at the Hidden Bar during Art Basel in Basel (2019) and the group exhibitions „Hypercons-cience“ at Shadok, Strasbourg (2018), „trans environmental exercises“ at Atelier Mondial in Basel (2018) and „Kurs“ in Raum 103 in Basel (2018).

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Director Statement

Katrin Niedermeier (DE, lives in Weil am Rhein and works in Basel and Weil am Rhein)
In her artistic practice she often thematizes the area of humanly constructed spaces of longing, fictitious or of real nature and investigates how these ideas manifest themselves in the form of „Arcadian“ gardens, virtual landscapes or personal fantasies.
Her work shows the ever-changing relationships between virtual and analog spaces while its implementation and development is exactly at the boundary of these two areas. Often digital for- mats, mostly animations, are the starting points of her works, which she then translates into installations, physical objects and paintings allowing a dialogue with each other.
Here the virtual world, as an entity with its own authorship, is questioned and its potential and impact in the analog and digital spheres is explored.