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Michael Busch

Buch Der Gesichte, Kapitel 1-5

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 15:0 | Allemagne | 2014

"Gesichte" is an old fashioned german word, close to "Gesichter", which means "faces", but these faces are more of a vision, an image from a dream or a hallucination, it is about inner landscapes. The one who sees these phantoms is in a transcendent room, an undefined in-between. "Gesichte" also appears in the japanese Noh theatre plays, where real people meet ghosts, souls of the passed, that find no rest. The Visions Book - in Germany nearly a translation of "facebook" - is a collection of my obsession of this worlds in-between, merging worlds, overlapping worlds, overlapping like two green screen video images, not accurate enough to avoid the light greenish shimmer in the hair of the teenage model. The basis of this collection is the photographic still image, the frozen pose. The film is like a photobook in time, the "book" like part of it like a page of a facebook chronical, a pile of short clips, pix, texts, comments, in a boundless subjectivity.

Born in 1965, artist, filmmaker, he studied fine arts at University Of Fine Arts, Berlin 1993-98 and graduated at the class for experimental film and arts of Heinz Emigholz, 1999. From 2006 to 2011 he has been teaching film at Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. From 2007 to 2012 he held a professorship at University Of Fine Arts, Berlin in the "experimental film" class and works as a film music composer, script writer, editing consultant. His own films include WORDS FOR WINDOWS (1996, 15 min. WP Int Forum Des Jungen Films, Berlinale GER) HYPERBOOKS (1999, 38min, WP Int. Short Film Days Oberhausen GER) VIRTUAL VAMPIRE (1999; 92 min, WP Max Ophüls Prize,Saarbrucken, GER) SEVEN HEAVENS (2005, 92min,WP Torino Int. Film Festival, I) THE ELECTRIC PARADISE (2010,208min, WP Int. Forum Expanded, Berlinale; GER) ERSTER SCHNEE (2014, 27 min, in postproduction) and the project VISIONS BOOK (2012-2014) Michael Busch lives and works in Berlin.