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Julian Tapprich

Coming Soon

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 7:30 | Suisse, Autriche | 2011

Julian Tapprich?s video work Coming Soon is based on the trailer for Michael Haneke?s film, ?La pianiste (The Piano Teacher)?. Tapprich examines the referentiality of trailers. The trailer to "La pianiste" does not only refer to a story but also contains a self-referential element. In a scene with a Schubert soundtrack the pianist (Isabelle Huppert) announces a letter which arrives immediately and is once again read out to her. Tapprich picks up this closed circuit: the letter is repeatedly announced and continually extended by new literary texts. By mixing the literary texts with those of the trailer the mood and tone of voice of the narrator are in a state of permanent change ? a form of disassociation that refers to the abbreviated nature of image, text and sound in trailers.

Julian Tapprich, born 1982 in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2003 studies of comparative literature in Vienna and Paris. Since 2007 studies of photography at the university of applied arts in Vienna.