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ZWÖLF BOXKÄMPFER JAGEN VIKTOR QUER ÜBER DEN GROSSEN SYLTER DEICH 140 9 (The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog)

fotoJohann Lurf | Austria 2009 | 3 min.

Material: 35mm
Format: 35mm
Original language: no dialogues

Production: Sixpackfilm
Print/Sales: Sixpackfilm

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3664 found film frames are projected in this ingeniously compiled sequence. Which ones the mind lingers upon will vary per viewer. Zwölf Boxkämpfer… (the title is a pangram) contains as many films as there are spectators.

Johann Lurf's super-short cuts appropriate the structure of a classic feature film. In the twitchy editing the individual frames deconstruct the normal sequence: The passage with various black frames ? which serves as a kind of leader ? is followed by another with fragments of a number of opening credits, then snippets of locations, possibly from establishing shots. Then come individuals or groups of two or more people, posing inside or outside, walking, driving cars, making music or having sex. There is no dialogue, no shot/countershot, no chase ensues after these brief appearances. On the contrary, Lurf's thesis film has a great deal in common with the found-footage experiments made by artists of the American neo-avant-garde. ? Rainer Bellenbaum

 

Johann Lurf,born in Vienna in 1982. Since 2002 he has studied at Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts. 2009 diploma at Harun Farocki's filmclass.

Films: 2008 12 Explosionen (UNDERDOX 04) | 2007 Vertigo Rush | 2005 pan | 2003 Without Title

 

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