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selbstschilderung

  • konstantinos-antonios goutos
    Director
  • Konstantinos2-
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    selbstschilderung
  • Runtime:
    21 minutes 2 seconds
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - konstantinos-antonios goutos

konstantinos-antonios goutos / the[video]Flâneu® was born on 11 February 1973 in Larissa, Greece. He studied music in his hometown, film directing in Athens, media art/video art in Leipzig and conceptual art in Prague. Goutos invented the term „the[video]Flâneu®“ in 2005. Since 2002, his [video] strolls have taken him to over 70 cities throughout Europe. His video works and installations have been presented at film, media and art events as well as in museums, galleries and offspaces in over 40 countries all over the world.

konstantinos-antonios goutos / the[video]Flâneu®

ist am 11 Februar 1973 in Larissa, Griechenland geboren,
hat Musik und Filmregie in Athen, Konzeptkunst in Prag
und Medienkunst/Videokunst in Leipzig studiert.

Goutos hat im Jahr 2005 den Begriff "the[video]Flâneu®" erfunden.
Seine [video]Flanerien führten ihn -seit 2002- europaweit in über 70 Städte.
Seiner Videoarbeiten und Installationen wurden auf Film-, Medien- und Kunstevents sowie in Museen, Galerien und Offspaces in über 40 Länder der Welt präsentiert.

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Director Statement


The artist strolls like a „Flâneur“ through the city. Through the Polis.
He is (and he acts as) the political Person per se.
He is obsessed with the purpose to watch and catch with his video camera unique, subtile but public moments which no eye has time to catch and watch: the rough poetic of the daily life in all of its variety, the politic of the daily life per se.
His gesture follows the tradition of the street photography and manifests some restrictions: no camera moves, no zooming, no special lighting, no extra microphone,
no effects, even no permission...
In a later process he chooses and combines the scenes and without to cut or to change anything, he projects, installs and presents them online, offline, on site or off site always under different contexts...
His preference is fictional, his gesture is docu/mental and performative but his product is an essay: finding the fictional moments of the reality, creating essays using film documentary, street photography, performance and sculptural manners, showing the ideal way of being and going together with the medium of the videocamera...