Toleranz, video(FHD), 8min 18sec, 2022
The video work, Tolerance, is an audio-visual essay composed of 165 different movie scenes extracted from 110 movies.
The video images are divided into 6 to 10 frames per second, and the collage is recomposed with the original images on the top of paintings and documentary films. In total about 3,000 recreated images were used to create new images.
This method of working is an experiment that breaks the boundaries of filmmaking, turning images into paintings and then making the paintings into a film again.
The subject concerns the violence and hypocrisy of totalitarianism and imperialism.
The main character, who lives in a totalitarian and imperialist country, goes back home where his wife is waiting. A secret policeman suddenly breaks into their house taking his wife and killing her violently. The main character attempts to stop this and he is placed under arrest.
The main character, coming out of prison after a long time, by chance sees a political campaign, and realizes that the speaker was that same secret policeman who killed his wife. He shouts about how the man had killed his wife and attempts to attack him.
However, the crowd regards him as a terrorist and tries to kill him, but he just asks the secret policeman!s pardon. Then, the crowd begins to praise him. The main character drops to his knees and screams. Thus goes the story of this video.
Through the character who changes in every scene, a message is sent that everyone can be both an attacker and victim of the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt.
A sound musician Cacophony also joined the production. Wherever the main character, his wife, and the dictator(secret policeman) appears, the sound is different in order
to present an atmosphere of contradiction and hypocrisy with discord in the regular rhythm.
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The video images are divided into 6 to 10 frames per second, and the collage is recomposed with the original images on the top of paintings and documentary films. In total about 3,000 recreated images were used to create new images.
This method of working is an experiment that breaks the boundaries of filmmaking, turning images into paintings and then making the paintings into a film again.
The subject concerns the violence and hypocrisy of totalitarianism and imperialism.
The main character, who lives in a totalitarian and imperialist country, goes back home where his wife is waiting. A secret policeman suddenly breaks into their house taking his wife and killing her violently. The main character attempts to stop this and he is placed under arrest.
The main character, coming out of prison after a long time, by chance sees a political campaign, and realizes that the speaker was that same secret policeman who killed his wife. He shouts about how the man had killed his wife and attempts to attack him.
However, the crowd regards him as a terrorist and tries to kill him, but he just asks the secret policeman!s pardon. Then, the crowd begins to praise him. The main character drops to his knees and screams. Thus goes the story of this video.
Through the character who changes in every scene, a message is sent that everyone can be both an attacker and victim of the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt.
A sound musician Cacophony also joined the production. Wherever the main character, his wife, and the dictator(secret policeman) appears, the sound is different in order
to present an atmosphere of contradiction and hypocrisy with discord in the regular rhythm.
