Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Westcoast is a panorama-video consisting of interweaved scenes mounted on a coastline - somewhere between Rotterdam and Sydney. Starting from a bubbling primordial soup the view pans along a waterfront in the style of a late transnational financial eclecticism and passes mystical spots such as a giant hippo eating carrots and hectically spinning rubber boats. After a dark spiritual waterway recalling Hieronymus Bosch atmospheres, the panorama ends in a cave with refuse-Jacuzzi in which a white woman gazes about herself melancholically.

Ulu Braun (1976) is belonging to a new generation of artists that entered the field of digital film with a background in visual arts and street art. In his works he integrates various production methods to form sceneries that play between Hollywood, Prado and periphery. In most of his works he observes the tragic of reality from different angles. Braun exhibits internationally including recent solo shows in Germany, Belgium, USA and group shows in Germany, Spain, France, Finland, Estonia and Greece. His works have been screened at the major experimental Film and Media Art Festivals. Collaborations with Roland Seidel as BitteBitteJaJa and finnish artist group YKON. He is currently living in Berlin. www.ulubraun.com