Fatherland
Toby Kaufmann-Buhler
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The present film was created at the Experimental Television Center in New York. In essence it is a rather complex video based in several levels: the documentary and the artistic. The relationship between people, space, history, and consciousness is examined. In the course of nearly seven minutes the author tries to draw the observer's attention to the most important aspects of our life. The place we were born, our parents, the path where we took our first steps – all of this forms our subsequent life. And when we return to our homeland, we feel all of the atmosphere that formed us. The landscape changes, but it remains its former self. Just like the characters: besides the director, in the given space we also find the camera-operator, who basically has no relationship to the history of the main character. But from now on he is part of this unified space. Memory – that is what drives the entire human existence.
6:38
The present film was created at the Experimental Television Center in New York. In essence it is a rather complex video based in several levels: the documentary and the artistic. The relationship between people, space, history, and consciousness is examined. In the course of nearly seven minutes the author tries to draw the observer's attention to the most important aspects of our life. The place we were born, our parents, the path where we took our first steps – all of this forms our subsequent life. And when we return to our homeland, we feel all of the atmosphere that formed us. The landscape changes, but it remains its former self. Just like the characters: besides the director, in the given space we also find the camera-operator, who basically has no relationship to the history of the main character. But from now on he is part of this unified space. Memory – that is what drives the entire human existence.
About the author
The Englishman Toby Kaufmann-Buhler studies the relationships that exist between the picture, sound, and audience. In each of his films he looks at the picture as a single entity, and as as a way of expressing the director's thoughts. He studied at the University of South Florida (2001) and also at the Royal College of Art (2003).
The Englishman Toby Kaufmann-Buhler studies the relationships that exist between the picture, sound, and audience. In each of his films he looks at the picture as a single entity, and as as a way of expressing the director's thoughts. He studied at the University of South Florida (2001) and also at the Royal College of Art (2003).
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