Ink Eraser

In 2010, the television show Tatort celebrates its fortieth birthday: no other production has influenced a genre so greatly or been the epitome of popular German culture for such a long time. Veronika Schubert’s found footage animation Ink Eraser draws from this rich reservoir. The artist’s special interest, however, is not in the genre or the medium, but instead, in what the genre and the medium contribute to contemporary visual and linguistic culture. Ink Eraser is a montage of entirely incidentally emerging visual and linguistic clichés and phrases. The genre of constitutive gestures is called on for this: the...

Orig. Title
Tintenkiller
Year
2009
Countries
Austria, Czech Republic
Duration
4 min 30 sec
Category
Animation
Orig. Language
German
Subtitles
English
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