FORTRESS:HOME

On the border between visibility and invisibility. Phantom images of a political reality, merely footnoted in daily reporting.

In FORTRESS:HOME, flickering, disappearing film footage accompanies tourist information texts on the "emergence" of the country as moments of memory of a childhood in the borderland. In the equally disturbing and lyrical video essay Border, Iraqi and Afghan refugees trying to get from the French camp of Sangatte through the Eurotunnel to "promised" England appear as nocturnal shadowy creatures in the spotlight.

Visual, technical and "anthropological" motifs as organizing principles in the re-visioning of earlier "cultural traces" prove to be fundamentally "composed" in Phantom Foreign Vienna. The supposed repre- sentation becomes an open process in which what is recorded ultimately remains a phantom. (GW)

Program
FORTRESS:HOME (David Kleinl, A 2003, video, 7 min.)
Border (Laura Waddington, GB/F 2004, video, 27 min.)
Phantom Foreign Vienna (Lisl Ponger, A 2004, 35mm, 27 min.)