FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Oliver Pietsch | D 2010 | 42 min.
Material: 35mm
Format: DVD
Original language: English
Editing: Oliver Pietsch
Production: Oliver Pietsch
Print/Sales: Oliver Pietsch
Violence, blood, sensation, accidents, splatter, dramatic dying. Oliver Pietsch is known for his found-footage-music-videos. In From Here to Eternity he has assembled footage of feature films to trace an arc of violence, death and fantasies of the beyond. Pietsch deconstructs and remystifies. His "encyclopedia" of dying in the cinema shows kitsch and escapism, and the inevitability of death. Finally, the ending makes one feel - almost - optimistic: may be death is also only one of the dreams we dream in cinema. Merely to never wake up again.
Oliver Pietsch, born in 1972 in Munich, lives in Berlin. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and Berlin.
Films (selection): 2010 From Here to Eternity | 2008 The Shape of Things (UNDERDOX 03), Because (UNDERDOX 03) | 2007 Love Comes To Me | 2006 Domin, Libra Nos (UNDERDOX 02) (UNDERDOX 03) | 2005 The Conquest of Happiness | Maybe Not (UNDERDOX 01) | 2004 Tuned | 2003 Heaven Can Wait | 2002 Heroes
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