//graduate film hfg offenbach
//personal essay
//short
//16mm color, 35mm b/w, miniDV video
//locations: offenbach, frankfurt, würzburg
//currently in montage
//SYNOPSIS
is a personal experiment about life forms and their inner and outer machinery in the information age.
Ursula Pfeffer talks in a video to descendants about her childhood after the war. An education based on the ideas of Nazi pedagogue Johanna Haarer, made up of archive fragments. Times later it finds another child, exploring an abandoned data centre.
Wurmloch is a quest on a bike ride asking how the www appears in experience, and how it materializes through its spatial claims through history. Materialities are elementary: 16mm film, 35mm still photography, miniDV video. Cuts pierce from one to the other.
„On my rides, I pass archives, spaces where contradictions are possible. Places that don’t produce growth, but branches and spaces where things don’t become more, but closer.“
16mm color
A dialogue while the camera slowly moves along the fibre optic infrastructure. Images of public life and voice-over text side by side. The infrastructure of the network is criss-crossed everywhere in the urban space remaining invisible. Data flows. Streams of data. The river Main.
35mm b/w
Frozen frames. A young child laughs in a halting black and white world. It survives and trudges through an abandoned data center. What to do here without knowledge of binary code?
miniDV video
The voice of its great-grandmother resounds from a pre-binary world. She is my grandmother, Ursula Pfeffer, born at the end of the Second World War, decided to move to Offenbach, became a nurse at the city hospital, met a catholic priest who became my grandfather. It was on Ursula’s computer that Balduin took the first binary steps in the late 90s.
contact: wurmloch@freieseite.net
funded by a mountain of unpaid work and Hessenfilm&Medien