Infermental 1 (1982)
Berlin/West, Germany, 1982
37 contributions, 8 countries, 4 hours
Editors: Gábor Bódy / Astrid Heibach
Supervisor: Gusztáv Hámos
The first publication of »INFERMENTAL-MAGAZINE« today has hardly lost its zest and intensity. Perhaps we could do without a demonstration of experimental invention, a pure documentation of a performance, or the trailer of a feature film which only uses the pictures to illustrate a prefabricated world-view. But apart from the fact that the thinking continues to come from below, the trust in the power to copy from pictures (the tones, the “speech”) something which they have in common, something of their own (new) structure, remains fresh and inviting. The Odenbach and Bódy of 1978 are also expressive today, even more expressive than at the time of the “Conversation between East and West”. Because the movement of information and the fermentation that was generated by the »Infermental« videos has in the mean – time gained energy the movement has long since gone beyond the magazine.
(Dietrich Kuhlbrodt)
Content
The Mirror as Motif
Analysis of Mass Media
Artists Statements
New Narrative
Time and Space Articulation Through Human Movement
Vocal Experiments
The Mirror as a Motif | ||||
| The traditional motif of the mirror and the reflection also appears in the latest filmworks. Infermental presents works which build up levels of picture-sound reflecting each other through electronic feedback or photo chemical synthesis. | ||||
Hentz, Mike | Green Phase – Grüne Phase | D/USA | 1982 | 07:20 |
Padeluun | Degression | D | 1981 | 01:54 |
Odenbach, Marcel / Bódy, Gábor | Conversation Between East and West | D/H | 1978 | 03:17 |
Morgan, Tony | Detail | D/H | 1979 | 01:34 |
Crash, Robert / Ruggins, Otto von | Rescue 1 – Movie Viewers | GB/D | 1981 | 04:00 |
Jancsó, Zoltán | Secrets and Possibilities | F | 1981 | 05:34 |
Hirschbiegel, Oliver | Simulation und Wirklichkeit | D | 1981 | 11:37 |
Höpflinger, Raymond | Kunstdefinitionen | CH | 1981 | 08:22 |
Coerper, Andreas | Ich habe Könige und Königinnen gekannt | D | 1981 | 06:33 |
Mass Media Analysis | ||||
| Home-video introduced a new epoch of communication. The TV-Viewer can be active in the re-arranging of the images of the mass media. There will be endless possibilities for creative work and systemetical analysis. | ||||
| Bay, Didier | Comment mon père a-t-il tué Burt Lancaster / How did my Father Kill Burt Lancaster? | F | 1983 | 13:03 |
| Dreher, Christoph / Hámos, Gusztáv | Commercials | D | 1983 | 11:06 |
Artists’ Statements | ||||
| This is the most accessible section of Infermental, which provides possibilities for essential expression: Performance, art definitions, artists’ concepts. | ||||
Hentz, Mike | Green Phase – Grüne Phase | D/USA | 1982 | 07:20 |
Padeluun | Degression | D | 1981 | 01:54 |
Odenbach, Marcel / Bódy, Gábor | Conversation Between East and West | D/H | 1978 | 03:17 |
Morgan, Tony | Detail | D/H | 1979 | 01:34 |
Crash, Robert / Ruggins, Otto von | Rescue 1 – Movie Viewers | GB/D | 1981 | 04:00 |
Jancsó, Zoltán | Secrets and Possibilities | F | 1981 | 05:34 |
Hirschbiegel, Oliver | Simulation und Wirklichkeit | D | 1981 | 11:37 |
Höpflinger, Raymond | Kunstdefinitionen | CH | 1981 | 08:22 |
Coerper, Andreas | Ich habe Könige und Königinnen gekannt | D | 1981 | 06:33 |
New Narrative | ||||
| As expected there has appeared new forms of narrative, leaving the limited possibilities of structural and minimalistic experimental film behind. The new narrative does not follow the usual formats of cinema and television. It is a new consciousness to set sign posts.This section presents for example a trailer of a larger work. | ||||
Morris, Michael / Trasov, Vincent | Friends | CDN | 1981 | 08:14 |
Blumenschein, Tabea | XY - Vorsicht Falle / XY - Watch Our for the Trap | D | 1981 | 12:14 |
Birger, Bustorff | Hysterie | D | 1981 | 07:00 |
Wollrath, Anna | Volle Breite | D | 1981 | 06:48 |
Poe, Amos / Heer, Johanna | Subway Riders | USA | 1981 | 01:16 |
Balzer, Thomas | Ost-Best, Ich bin nicht das Mädchen aus Vermont (excerpt) | D | 1981 | 04:04 |
Speck, Wieland | Bei uns zu Haus / At Home With Us | D | 1981 | 07:22 |
Space- and Time Articulation Through Human Movement | ||||
| The works of the fifth section touch a permanent paradigm of the visual culture: the placement of the human body in space and time, its division at a fixed point, presenting this in documentary analysis, video performance, computer-graphic rostrum and metaphorical movements. | ||||
| Rosenbach, Ulrike | Wechselfrau im Rosenkranz | D | 1981 | 10:21 |
| Bruch, Klaus vom | Zartbitter (excerpt) | D | 1981 | 00:53 |
| Pfeiffer, Ulrike | Freude | D | 1981 | 02:55 |
| Mühlenbrock, Heiner / Domkowski, Christine | Das Rettungsschwimmen | D | 1981 | 03:45 |
| Balcerowiak, Cornelia | S-8 Notiz | D | 1981 | 01:16 |
| Morgan, Tony / Bauer, Cecile | Pressure Blues | GB/D | 1979 | 02:18 |
| Bódy, Gábor | Homage to Eadweard Muybridge | H | 1980 | 09:57 |
| Y Sa Lo | Spuren -Portrait Jaqueline Rouard / Traces.. | D/ | 1981 | 05:11 |
Vocal Experiments | ||||
| This is still a new area. The human voice in an om-medium and will by articulation and in conjunction with the new visual media give a new perspective. | ||||
Somogyi, Joseph | Space + Sound (excerpt) | D | 1978 | 09:55 |
Berger, Franklin | Statements | D | 1981 | 02:05 |
Mondini, Babeth | One World Poetry Tape | NL | 1981 | 04:24 |
Jost, Jon | Stage Fright | USA | 1981 | 06:22 |
Hentz, Mike | Detail | D/USA | 1982 | 07:38 |