House of Mirrors

• NYX / NYX
  Where in Greek mythology, the earth mother Gaia gives us the topos of the city, Nyx the goddess of the Night gives us the inner realm. The progeny of Nyx, a potent crowd embodying human experience, include old age, rage, strife and friendship. Thanatos, the god of quiet death, his twin Hypnos and his wife Pasithea, the goddess of hallucination, begin the Odyssian journey of a young man from Kreuzberg along the U7 line to Spandau, which becomes the river Lethe, the river of forgetfulness. The hero’s name is Furat, the Arab form of Euphetes, the holy river. Furat sleeps on the train, intoxicated after a party, and finds himself in various parts of West Berlin in direct confrontation with, or under the spell of, various Childs of The Night. GB / D 2010
  Director/author: Claire Hooper 
  United Kingdom   2010
  Film & Video Video 22 min.
  
   
• The Multitude Is Feverish /  
  The diary-based film reveals itself as a poetically sharp portrait of a person who purposely misses her connecting flight ›for no particular reason‹. Fluidly shifting between various layers of consciousness, perception, perspective and time, the borders between subjectivity and objectivity become as obsolete as those between the inner and outer world. As she is wandering through the city, we dive into the multilayered facets of a personality - her phantom thoughts - and catch a glimpse of the contradictions, struggles and desires that can lie within one person.
  Director/author: Vika Kirchenbauer 
  Germany   2011
  Film & Video Video 17 min.
  
   
• These Hammers Don't Hurt Us / These Hammers Don't Hurt Us
  Tired of underworld and overworld alike, Isis escorts her favorite son on their final curtain call down the Nile, leaving a neon wake of shattered tombs and sparkling sarcophagi. A psychedelic homage focussing on two glamorous spheric creatures of the 20th century Liz Taylor and Michael Jackson.
  Director/author: Michael Robinson 
  USA   2010
  Film & Video Video 13 min.
  
   
• Trypps #7 (Badlands) / Trypps #7 (Badlands)
  "Trypps #7 (Badlands) zeigt mit einer intim anmutenden langen Aufnahme den LSD-Trip einer jungen Frau im Badlands National Park, bevor er in eine psychedelische, formale Abstraktion der weiten Wüstenlandschaft übergeht. Russell beschäftigt sich mit dem Gedanken romantischer Erhabenheit, phänomenologischer Erfahrungen und säkularem Spiritualismus und setzt mit dieser Arbeit sein ungewöhnliches Forschen nach den Möglichkeiten des Kinos als Ort der Transzendenz fort.‹ Michael Green, MCA Chicago "Trypps #7 (Badlands) charts, through an intimate long-take, a young woman's LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expansive desert landscape. Concerned with notions of the romantic sublime, phenomenological experience and secular spiritualism, the work continues Russell's unique investigation into the possibilities of cinema as a site for transcendence." Michael Green, MCA Chicago
  Director/author: Ben Russell 
  USA   2010
  Film & Video 35 mm 9 min.