Bruch, Klaus vom; Rosenbach, Ulrike
«A Thousand Kisses»

This tape, originally published by Klaus vom Bruch in co-operation with Ulrike Rosenbach and sold later as a variant with the title 'Relativ Romantisch' (Relatively Romantic) is one of the first ironic and narrative 'Found-Footage' compilations made possible by the expansion of German television broadcasting time and the flood of historical feature films that came with it. Here Klaus vom Bruch is not interested in the hidden energy and layers of meaning created in a short piece of film by repetitive montage, but in deconstructing Hollywood narrative conventions by accumulating an endless series of formally similar scenes. Narrative contexts that are entirely amusing are constructed using the motif of the kiss and an encyclopaedic count up to a thousand. However, the stereotypes of narrative construction become increasingly visible as such in the course of the 'action'.

 

Rudolf Frieling