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Categories: Film
Keywords: Politics
Works by Wolf Vostell:
Automatic Answering Machine
Concrete TV Paris German View from the Black Room Cycle The Consequences of the Emergency Laws Do it yourself Dé-collage Electronic Dé-coll/age, Happening Room Project for a Drive-in Museum Fluxus Train Early Works with TV Grasshoppers Morning Glory Nein – 9 Decollagen Oscillograph on Beethoven Oscillographs (sketch) Sun in Your Head Television Décollage TV Burying TV for Millions TV Dé-coll/age for Millions TV-Décoll/age no. 1 YOU
Wolf Vostell
«Starfighter»
Jet airplanes had already figured prominently in Vostell’s tongue-twistingly titled happening 'In Ulm, um Ulm und um Ulm herum' ('In, Around, and Round About Ulm'). In one part ('The Airfield as Concert Hall'), the audience was exhorted to 'admire the airplane' while the pilots ran the jet engines at different speeds for a full ten minutes. The videotape shows the US Airforce's Starfighter jet – notorious for its frequent crashes – in distorted and dissolving images that are looped in an endlessly repetitive cycle. Vostell explained: 'My films are psychological units of experience and learning processes in which boredom, delays, repetitions and distortions are analogies to processes going on in the world about us.'
