Film

Granular Synthesis: Modell 5

1994 · 6m

MODELL 5 is a performance or installation in which the face of Japanese performer Akemi Takeya is subject to drastic time-based interventions that create in essence a cyborg-like hybrid, between human and machine. A roller coaster dramaturgy following the "life" of the four clones on screens. Using a technique derived from the principals of the sound design technique called "granular synthesis" but applied to the rather fat grains of single video frames (visual content and sound), Granular-Synthesis manages to evoke from a few expressions on the face of the performer Akemi Takeya, a frenzied exploration of the alter ego within touching distance.

• Kurt HentschlägerDirector
• Ulf LangheinrichDirector

Release date

June 8, 1994

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

6m