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Christoph Oertli

Monsieur René

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 11:11 | Suisse, Belgique | 2012

The camera is invading an over-stuffed apartment, floating through an almost surreal material world. There is a presence of the real tenant, supposedly an old man, who we don?t get to see. Instead, a younger man in search of a place to rest is wandering about. The rooms reveal the standstill of a lonley person, who has separated himself from life and the outside world by pileing up consumer objects. A glance out of the window shows a formerly fancy boulevard in Brussels, ruled today by Moroccan traders and African immigrants.

1962* Winterthur/Switzerland, lives and works in Basel/Switzerland and Brussels/Belgium HGK Zürich, Graphic design; Swiss Television Zürich, stage design; HGK Basel, audiovisual design. videotapes, video installations, documentary videos. Works 1995-97 on cruise-ships around the world, lives 1998-2000 in Montréal/Canada and 2002-07 in Paris, then moves to Brussels. 2000-02 lecturer for video Fachhochschule Vorarlberg/Austria. From 2004 guest lecturer HGK Lucerne/CH.