The Fiction of [His] Existence I.
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Type:
video art
Creation Date:
1983
Language:
German
Description:
The video is based on the volume of short stories by Frigyes Karinthy entitled A Journey Round My Skull, Berlin being the setting. In the first short story Karinthy narrates how locomotives creaked and rumbled by, disturbing his tranquility at the Central Café in Budapest three times, until he finally realizes that he has been hallucinating. Hámos' authentic shots, done at Berlin's S-Bahn, are related to The Invisible Train in that he compresses the artificial, violent division of former Eastern and Western Europe into his images with the aid of invisible dividing lines, made discernible only through the process of picture making. In the strip made through the mediums of video, photography and television, we see clips from the news, images of figure skaters, and figures moving between two monitors. (Evelin Páll)
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Original Title (German):
Seins Fiction I.