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Completed On: 21 Dec, 2020

Director: Myriam Thyes

Duration: 8 min 55 sec

Genres: Experimental, Mockumentary, Short

Language: no dialog

Country: Germany

Submitted By: Myriam Thyes

Festival Rating 8.0

Myriam Thyes, 2020, UHD video, 8:55, stereo

Video recordings from Zurich, each arranged with four scenes like: sunbathers at a canal; celebrating a soccer World Cup victory; watching TV at Café Odeon; the busy commuter railway station Hardbrücke; a traffic policewoman and a fountain; the ‚Prime Tower‘ high-rise building; scaffolders at a facade; crowds at Zurich Central Station; water birds on Lake Zurich; a candy shop on the famous Bahnhofstrasse … Urban everyday life in a highly efficient, blithesome, rich, small cosmopolitan city. Every now and then, an Alien* appears – as a symbol for everything that is being suppressed.

*The character Alien, from the movies of the same title, was created by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger who lived and worked in Zurich.

  • Film Type
    Experimental, Mockumentary, Short
  • Genres
    video art
  • Runtime
    8 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date
    21 Dec, 2020
  • Production Budget
    200 EUR
  • Country of Origin
    Germany
  • Country of Filming
    Switzerland
  • Film Language
    no dialog
  • Shooting Format
    HD / UHD
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Film Color
    Color
  • Student Project
    No
  • First-time Filmmaker
    No

Red Dragon Creative Awards
United States
Dallas
07/10/2021
Honorable Mention

Amsterdam World Intl. Film Festival
Netherlands
Amsterdam
05/04/2021
Best Editing Award

Director's Biography

Myriam Thyes. The artist from Switzerland and Luxembourg lives in Dusseldorf and Zurich. She studied at the Academay of Fine Arts, Dusseldorf, 1986-1992. Since 1994 she participates internationally in exhibitions and festivals. Myriam Thyes has received several scholarships, awards and grants.
https://thyes.com/en/biography-eng

Director's Statement

Artist Statement.
My themes and visual researches deal with powerful symbols, myths and signs from architecture, society, politics, movies and religions. My artworks are explorations of their meanings, a questioning, reevaluation, and creations of new associations. In order to undermine entrenched representations, I work directly with them, contradict or re-interpret them with visual means, or focus on their hidden aspects. Using video, animation, collage, abstraction, and found footage, well-known figures undergo transformations, start to communicate and build new relations. Symbols of identities turn into elements of dialogues.

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