PROJECT [video]Flâneu® The artist walks like a „Flâneur“ through the city. He does not have a turtle with him (as the original Parisian Flâneur of the 1830‘s used to); later, he does not write stories (as Edgar Allan Poe or Hans Christian Andersen used to), he does not write poems (as Baudelaire or Rilke used to)
He has only a video camera. He takes shots of the city; he takes shots of the “life” of the people of the city, sometimes he also shoots “himself” (...without camera moves, without a zoom lens, without special lighting, with original sound, without permission); he puts the scenes together with no chronological sequence and under different contexts:
tales and history, reactions - relations, sounds - words, lights - colours, structures - architectures, incidents - accidents, order - disorder...
Not a description of a journey, but „my lyrical reaction, with all my truth and simplicity“ as Federico Garcia Lorca once said about his collection A Poet in New York.
films of Vertov, Haneke, Benning, Penalva or Juergen Boettcher paintings of Bosch, Brueghel, Giorgione, Rembrandt or Strawalde photos of Atget, Stieglitz, Friedlander, Lartigue or Cartier-Bresson texts of Benjamin, Krakauer, Bazin, Mc Luhan or Vilém Flusser
are important works for dialog and inspiration...
“It is not fiction because, with a few exceptions, it is based wholly on unstylised reality. It is not documentary because the reality is not organized into an explanation of itself. And it is not cinéma-vérité because the artist shoots and manipulates his unstylized reality in such a way that the result has style.”
[From Gene Youngblood`s “Expanded Cinema” (1970)]
konstantinos-antonios goutos / the[video]Flâneu®
gaertnerstr.181 / 301 d-04209 leipzig +4915205133257 videoflaneur@gmail.com videoflaneur.googlepages.com
[video]Flâneu®'s ARCHIVE
The archive has a duration of about 250 hours (with scenes from Berlin, Leipzig, Brussels, Nuremberg, Larissa, Thessaloniki, Cologne, Prague, Dresden, Potsdam, Police, Athens, Halle, Gdansk, Weimar, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Aarau, Basel, Kassel, Dessau, Braunschweig, Brandenburg, Naoussa, Erfurt, Rhodes, Hamburg, Opole, Krakow, Auschwitz, Olomouc, Pavia, Genoa, Plauen, Chalkis, Meissen, Sczcecin, Liège, Enschede, Gronau, Magdeburg, Lisbon, Bratislava …)
the last years, more than 50 different own works were presented as one-or-more-channel- installations or as a screening in more than 150 film/media/art events and institutions (in 30 lands and 68 cities) of europe, america and asia...
A huge, unrealized project of the artist is to install the most fascinating of his scenes in all those 43 cities, where he has already done a [video]strolling and to install them exactly in the original location where the scene (somewhere in time) is taken...
a ten-minutes introduction on PROJECT [video]Flâneu® you can find here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxYVnHXO3mY
konstantinos-antonios goutos / the[video]Flâneu®
gaertnerstr.181 / 301 d-04209 leipzig +4915205133257 videoflaneur@gmail.com videoflaneur.googlepages.com
PROJECT [video]Flâneu® The artist walks like a „Flâneur“ through the city. He does not have a turtle with him (as the original Parisian Flâneur of the 1830‘s used to); later, he does not write stories (as Edgar Allan Poe or Hans Christian Andersen used to), he does not write poems (as Baudelaire or Rilke used to)
He has only a video camera. He takes shots of the city; he takes shots of the “life” of the people of the city, sometimes he also shoots “himself” (...without camera moves, without a zoom lens, without special lighting, with original sound, without permission); he puts the scenes together with no chronological sequence and under different contexts:
tales and history, reactions - relations, sounds - words, lights - colours, structures - architectures, incidents - accidents, order - disorder...
Not a description of a journey, but „my lyrical reaction, with all my truth and simplicity“ as Federico Garcia Lorca once said about his collection A Poet in New York.
films of Vertov, Haneke, Benning, Penalva or Juergen Boettcher paintings of Bosch, Brueghel, Giorgione, Rembrandt or Strawalde photos of Atget, Stieglitz, Friedlander, Lartigue or Cartier-Bresson texts of Benjamin, Krakauer, Bazin, Mc Luhan or Vilém Flusser
are important works for dialog and inspiration...
“It is not fiction because, with a few exceptions, it is based wholly on unstylised reality. It is not documentary because the reality is not organized into an explanation of itself. And it is not cinéma-vérité because the artist shoots and manipulates his unstylized reality in such a way that the result has style.”
[From Gene Youngblood`s “Expanded Cinema” (1970)]
konstantinos-antonios goutos / the[video]Flâneu®
gaertnerstr.181 / 301 d-04209 leipzig +4915205133257 videoflaneur@gmail.com videoflaneur.googlepages.com
[video]Flâneu®'s ARCHIVE
The archive has a duration of about 250 hours (with scenes from Berlin, Leipzig, Brussels, Nuremberg, Larissa, Thessaloniki, Cologne, Prague, Dresden, Potsdam, Police, Athens, Halle, Gdansk, Weimar, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Aarau, Basel, Kassel, Dessau, Braunschweig, Brandenburg, Naoussa, Erfurt, Rhodes, Hamburg, Opole, Krakow, Auschwitz, Olomouc, Pavia, Genoa, Plauen, Chalkis, Meissen, Sczcecin, Liège, Enschede, Gronau, Magdeburg, Lisbon, Bratislava …)
the last years, more than 50 different own works were presented as one-or-more-channel- installations or as a screening in more than 150 film/media/art events and institutions (in 30 lands and 68 cities) of europe, america and asia...
A huge, unrealized project of the artist is to install the most fascinating of his scenes in all those 43 cities, where he has already done a [video]strolling and to install them exactly in the original location where the scene (somewhere in time) is taken...
a ten-minutes introduction on PROJECT [video]Flâneu® you can find here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxYVnHXO3mY
konstantinos-antonios goutos / the[video]Flâneu®
gaertnerstr.181 / 301 d-04209 leipzig +4915205133257 videoflaneur@gmail.com videoflaneur.googlepages.com