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Josef Dabernig
Wisla (1996)
16mm auf DVD (8 min), s/w
Two performers, in the roles of coach and assistant coach of a football team, follow the progress of a fictitious “crucial” match. They are in an empty stadium, the only figures captured by the camera, which records the significant gestures of the protagonists.
As a naked visual atmosphere, the empty Wisla Stadium in Krakow contrasts with original sound recordings from two Series A football matches played at the Stadio Friuli in Udine. Proceeding from this contrast, a complex principle of duality expands into several different levels: from the differences apparent in the two character studies to the dialectic of scenic apathy and an aggressive-dynamic correlative in sound, from the gaping emptiness of the stadium, as a document of a rundown socialist facade and its ironic reversal into a quasi representational stage.
The sparing yet effective gestures of the actors serve as a catalyst for patterns of action, which take on meaning within the framing context of a football match. As such, they become a metaphor for social behaviour, an ambivalent expression of power and powerlessness.
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Josef Dabernig, Wisla, 16mm auf DVD (8 min), s/w, 1996, Camera: Thomas Baumann |
Directed, scripted and produced by Josef Dabernig
Camera: Thomas Baumann
Sound and editing: Josef Dabernig, Martin Kaltner
Performers: Josef Dabernig, Martin Kaltner - Emil Brix, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Ludwik Mietta-Mikolajewicz, Rembert Schleicher
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