The protagonist in this ‘video in four episodes’ is emotionally indifferent and characterizes speechlessness in the sense of an incapa-bili-ty to communi-cate. Even though the action mostly takes place outdoors, the actor, who does not fit into his surroun-dings and is only busy with himself, is impriso-ned by useless action and will never reach his goal. The sober images hide an ambiguous content and new levels of reality appear: A statement is repea-ted time and again, sometimes by electronic split-screen (cancelling out of the linear conti-nuity of space and time); close-ups, staging and light-ef-fects are used, the latter mainly through the arbi-trary change of places and times and thus of the light conditi-ons. The work is a sound-play with a mysterious touch. Weird noises, mostly distorted and cut off, unintelligible voices, footsteps, motor noises, and fragments of words are heard. Now and then single words receive a function of sound, or are shredded and obtain a new meaning. This bombardment of impressions thus becomes similar to a swooning faint. Vedder mainly works with fixed camera positions, and if the camera moves at all, then only slowly. In front of the medi-um, which stares at us as we look at it, we are always vis-à-vis with ourselves. The development and understanding of signs (clocks, bags, rain, boots, bridges) as well as the question of the view-point is a central theme in her oeuvre. Usually the search is without orientation, and therefore an accidental comedy of situa-tion occurs; it is a search for the essence of existence. The inner truth and reality of a human being as a socialized creature are visualized here with simple means.
– Susanne Geiser
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Camera Klaus Dörries, Camera assistant Martin von Bülow, Editing Nathalie Percillier, Music Günther Heinz, Lutz Glandien, Bert Wrede, Helmut Zapf, danser Torsten Haase
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