PLAY FOR TODAY
The film based on the comic strip Smoke by Adrian Tomine I did at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. With this movie I tried to translate the technique of narration in comic into video aesthetic. I was interested in that special kind of dynamic storytelling with stopped-motion-pictures and with breaks. How does motion work without moving the camera?
A young woman is confronted with a not solvable problem. A conflict. How does this transform into action? Where does action start? How much passivity is possible in action? Who decides when I am unable to decide? Which ways out, ways back, loops away, ways of communication are open and when are they closed? Stagnancy as a condition. Film as acting moment. Stop!
// Experimental Short Film / January 2004 / 9min / No Dialogues / miniDV / Produced at Bauhaus University Weimar / Actress - Susann Maria Hempel / Assistant of Production - Samuel Oey / Colour Matching - Martin Kleppe / Sound Design - Lars Mai / Script - Mirko Kubein (based on a comic strip by Adrian Tomine) / Directing, Camera, Editing - Mirko Kubein //
