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The video forms a subtle Editing of images that are always heterogenous, which cancel chronological time in favour of a synchronised presentation of events. This not only enormously stretches the relatively short physical duration of the tape, but also the meaning of what you see is lifted beyond the confines of the images. Odenbach used self filmed material, staged scenes and old and new archive footage in colour or black and white, sometimes edited sequentially, sometimes mixed within one screen. The opening frame of a jumping soldier immediately brings home the title. Subsequently you see a man packing his suitcase, images of marathon runners seen from behind, the blue and white flag of the United Nations with images filtering through of people in critical situations, fleeing, in war ... There is no voice-over, text or dialogue. With the exception of a fragment of classical music, the sounds present belong to critical situations: ominous rumbling, sirens, shots ... The images which run into each other draw on individual as well as collective history and memories. Odenbach reveals a humanity adrift whereby the references to the United Nations can be nothing other than equivocal.
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Jorinde Seijdel
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Camera Marcel Odenbach, Thomas Rummel, Light Thomas Rummel, Editing Marcel Odenbach, Andreas Egerlein, Frank Buchholz, Sound Thomas Zitzwitz, Production Marcel Odenbach, UNO / H.f.G.-Karlsruhe
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