General Information
Completed On: 21 Dec, 2020
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.
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Film TypeExperimental, Mockumentary, Short
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Genresvideo art
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Runtime8 minutes 55 seconds
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Completion Date21 Dec, 2020
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Production Budget200 EUR
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Country of OriginGermany
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Country of FilmingSwitzerland
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Film Languageno dialog
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Shooting FormatHD / UHD
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Aspect Ratio
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerNo
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.