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The images alternate in a measured tempo between the editing-room in the 'Institute for Applied Geometry' and the baroque garden of Hannover castle. A refugee ballerina from a musical box carries on a question and answer game with the man behind the video. Alternately dressed in blue, green and red dresses, she calls to mind the 'Triadic Ballet' of Oskar Schlemmer. 'Olympia, let me see you move', and she appears and disappears behind the symmetrical hedges, between the columns and in the sculpture park, leaving a trail of astonishment behind. The geometrical orderliness that lies at the roots of the historical landscape design also provides the formal basis for the composition of the electronic music. Similarly, the principles of the baroque fugue - subject, answer, episode, and development - are repeated in the camera-work and, in principle, in the rhythmic construction of the editing. The theme is based on E.T.A. Hoffman's 'Olympia'.
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Sonja van der Burg
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Crew: Thomas Balzer, Rainer Berson, Jahn Blaasz, Egon Bunne, Frieder Butzmann, Gusztáv Hámos, Manfred Hulverscheidt, Ulrike Madaj, Production: Neue Berliner Kunstverein eV, With: Cornelia Maierhofer, Ed Cantu
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