For Flugangst, Antal Lux collected all images and sounds that have anything to do with flying, as long as they were not of birds. Bombers and hot air balloons, anti-aircraft guns and parachutists, radar images and passengers. Only occasionally do we see people or machines on the ground, almost everything moves in the air. Lux made this video in his characteristic editing style with images overlapping each other, split screen and often rapid sequences of fragments. It is a formal approach in which you have to surrender yourself, without wanting to comprehend or understand; you often only understand later on what you have seen and heard. Flugangst is not a psychological analysis of a phobia but "an electronic recall of a childhood experience, transformed into visual and acoustic memory", says Lux. The idea for the video arose by observing the phenomenon of fellow passengers who suffered from a fear of flying. The many associations that Lux thereby obtained, fitted into place on a visit to an aircraft graveyard: when he played among the shot-down wrecks during the Second World War, he could not image that all those metal hulks could have kept themselves in the air. With this video, Lux shows what can be unleashed in your mind as a result of one, in itself insignificant occurrence. Today and yesterday develop unexpected commitments to each other, or run into each other, whole series of associations and memories link up, a procession of images and thoughts passes by. What this video unleashes in our minds will be different for each one of us, fear of flying or not.
– Lies Holtrop
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Music Lutz Glandien, technische assistant Tamas Waliczky, Frank Vetter, advice Dr. Ernst Petzold, Dr. Laszlo Kruppa, With Emikö Nyilasi, Ferenc Lux, Zsuzsa Dobai, Production Artvideo A. Lux i.s.m. ZKM Karlsruhe
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