Markus Maicher

digital · 8:12 · Farbe / Colour · Stereo · 2023

The Act of Not Seeing with One's Own Eyes

The Act of Not Seeing with One's Own Eyes — still

Synopsis

I am a filmmaker, and a projectionist. Mostly I am a projectionist who doesn’t have time to make films. I projected so many images that my body got sick – severe chronic gastritis. I had to swallow a camera to see what was wrong inside me. The images that made me sick are the images that will help to make me well again. I did not make them, my body did. Through its automatic functioning, its convulsions, it produced images that you now see.

Images, concrete and abstract, beautiful and repulsive, almost like one of Stan Brakhage’s films. But also the complete opposite: not handmade but auto-poietic, not analog but the newest digital technology, not silent but with sounds produced by the body of a musician, not square but very wide, no subject here, no inner visions, just my inner self.

Technische Daten
Specifications

JahrYear
2023
DauerRuntime
8:12 min
AufnahmeformatShooting format
digital
BildformatAspect ratio
Scope
FarbeColour
Farbe / colour
TonSound
Stereo

Credits

RegieDirector
Markus Maicher
SounddesignSound design
Manfred Plessl
VertriebDistribution
Light Cone

Screener

Screener-Link für Festivals und Kurator:innen auf Anfrage.
Screener link for festivals and programmers on request.

Vorführungen
Screenings

  • Vienna Shorts Film Festival (World Premiere)
  • Uppsala Short Film Festival
  • 25fps Film Festival, Croatia
  • Dream Sequence, UK
  • Leiden Shorts, Netherlands
  • art+film+vienna, Austria
  • Go Short, Netherlands
  • Onion City Experimental Film Festival, USA
  • Cindependent Film Festival, USA
  • Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival, USA
  • Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA
  • Revelation Perth Int'l Film Festival, Australia
  • BIDEODROMO, Spain
  • Antimatter Media Art, Canada
  • Experimental Superstars, Serbia
  • K3 Film Festival, Austria

Einzelbilder aus dem Film.

Frames from the film.