FALLEN IMPERIAL
2003
Three channel video installation
12.00 min
DVCAM
Colour, sound
In the video installation fallen imperial images through doors of the Viennese Hotel Imperial alternate with those of the no longer used corridors of the Flak tower (Viennese anti aircraft tower built in the second world war) the fast cutting is accompanied by female punk singers which interact with the image like in a game bay console. In this way the singers are the connection between the fictive and mutating spaces. The aim is to break up the playful pompousness of the electric, juvenile punk culture with the conservatory gaze of baroque high culture, and bring these seizures in the rhythm of the video game culture, back to common styles of fashion and emblems.
Karin Pernegger
Written and directed by
Ursula Mayer
Camera
Alina V. Grumiller
Editor
Karin Heide
Gaffer
Gerhard Teiml
Make up
Birgit Fuchs
Special effects
Willi Neuner
Music
Sam Hughes & Ursula Mayer
Stills
Katrin Lea Tag
3-D Animation
Dirk Hochegger
Thanks to
Archotel
Mak Contemporary Art Tower
Gerald Benesch
Katharina Lampert
Stephan Ludescher
Sofie Thorsen