The Alter Bahnhof Video Walk was designed for the old train station in Kassel, Germany as part of dOCUMENTA (13). Participants are able to borrow an iPod and headphones from a check-out booth. They are then directed by Cardiff and Miller through the station. An alternate world opens up where reality and fiction meld in a disturbing and uncanny way that has been referred to as “physical cinema”. The participants watch things unfold on the small screen but feel the presence of those events deeply because of being situated in the exact location where the footage was shot. As they follow the moving images (and try to frame them as if they were the camera operator) a strange confusion of realities occurs. In this confusion, the past and present conflate and Cardiff and Miller guide us through a meditation on memory and reveal the poignant moments of being alive and present.

Ingrid Masuhr

Older Woman

Werner Dettmar

Older Man

Tobias Böhm

Fake TV Crew

Christoph Neugebauer

Fake TV Crew

Jürgen Wink

Man in Corridor

Luisa Engelbogen

Dancer

• George Bures MillerDirector
• Janet CardiffDirector
• Bertolt BrechtWriter
• Annika RixenProducer
• Martin KukulaDirector of Photography

Release date

January 1, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

26m

Genres

Documentary