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Seine Ausbildung absolviert er an der Filmhochschule Stuttgart. Bis 1990 dreht er vor allem Werbespots. Doch auch danach bleibt er seinem Medium treu, wechselt jedoch den Standort und rückt die Untersuchung unserer digital geprägten Weltwahrnehmung ins Zentrum seines künstlerischen Schaffens. Neben der Frage nach der eigenen Identität sind es vor allem die Mechanismen und Formen unserer Weltwahrnehmung, die ihn interessieren und die er in seinen Videos immer wieder hinterfragt. Melhus ist jedoch kein Dokumentarist, der Manipulationen aufdeckt, sondern er benutzt die Strategien der Medien oder erfindet neue hinzu und sorgt mit Witz und Tiefsinn für überraschende Wendungen. Die Generatio...
Filmmaking in Germany and Austria has changed dramatically with digitalization and the use of video and the Internet. Introducing the work of filmmakers, this volume offers an assessments of the intent and effect of their productions, and describes overall trends.
Bjorn Melhus is a video artist who has not only consummately mastered film language and digital image technology, but who, with the theme of the twin or Doppelganger, has also found a way to connect our time's most current themes: du bist nicht allein -- you are not alone is the horror vision of cloning humans and the question of the maintenance of an identity and self in the epoch of rapidly changing cultural identities and their media reflections. Bjorn Melhus deals with pop culture's worlds of image and sound in a seemingly playful way. By playing all the roles in his films himself, Melhus embodies an inner division that concerns us all. Where is the boundary between the I and the You? What patterns of action and experience influence us, now that even childhood is plugged in to the worlds of commercial film and television? What kinds of projection surfaces confront us? Are we manipulated, or do we manipulate ourselves? Book jacket.
The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.
On German homosexual cinema
Explores German cinema's enthusiasm for and anxiety about the blurring of postwar cultural boundaries
Catalogue du 38e Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand 2016