By Angelika Levi and Antje Schäfer.

Thanks to: Thomas Arslan, Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, Institut für Metereologie of Freie Univeristät Berlin.

Exhibition: “Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau 1888 – 1988”, Bielefeld and Düsseldorf 1988/1989

Award: No Budget Videoprize Hamburg.

Experimental video based on 2 models of the filmarchitect Robert Herlth from the film „Faust“ of F.W.Murnau. Instead of Doctor Faustus looking for a remedy against the plague, we see modern science and its methods visualized. The landscape model of the old film is viewed, magnified, abstracted, schematized, rasterized and destroyed through the look of modern technology. The view itself is an expression of development based on the destruction of nature, which excludes humans, nevertheless invented by themselves.

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Text & Storyboard [DE]