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Pentecost

Pentecost

Walking a thematic tightrope, Norbert Meissner here puts media technology to the test. The universal event of pentecost is the moment of the highest realization: technologically, the moment of all possibilities, i.e. white noise and snow. The text spoken by a TV announcer tries to create a hierarchy, but it is constantly disturbed, subverted, and displaced by electronic image distortions and fade-ins and fade-outs of multilingual versions of the text and of signal terms in various alphabets. A work to be read with differentiation on truth, sublimity, and the media.

Release DateJanuary 1, 1989
StatusReleased
Original TitlePfingsten
Runtime 7min
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LanguageEnglish, French, German
Original LanguageGerman
Production CountriesGermany
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