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 Date | January 1, 1989 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | Pfingsten | |
Runtime | 7min | |
Budget | — | |
Revenue | — | |
Language | English, French, German | |
Original Language | German | |
Production Countries | Germany | |
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