NEOZOON
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE
3:36 min
D 2016

The experimental found-footage collage SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE is based on digital greeting cards from big-game hunters. These animated GIF files, which are exchanged between the hunters, reproduce the minimal movement of shaking hands in a ghostly loop in which the hunted prey coagulates into a staffage against an exotic backdrop. The complex interplay of human behaviour, environmental ethics and cultural representation is condensed into an incisive visual commentary on the present, exposing the pointless glorification of the affluent neglect at the expense of protected animal species.

Phantom Horizons

The on-going screening series Phantom Horizons presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of ancient and medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach using the methodology of deconstruction and the possibilities of contemporary film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons.

Curated by Robert Seidel