Lars Köppl: Wallfacer – Force Eject
The piece is a concept short, portraying a contemporal dance performance. It originally was planned as a simple music video for the track „Force Eject“ by german Electronica-duo Wallfacer but quickly turned into something much more sophisticated after South-Korean dancer In-Jung Jun was comissioned to write, direct and perform an interpretation of the material. In her work, In-Jung translates the rhytmic feel of of the music into spiralling shapes, that push the dancers to fully utilize their athletic capabilities and ran them to point of exhaustion multiple times during the rehearsals, as well as the shoot. At the same time, the performance leaves moments of stillness and meditation, just to explode into virtuous dance in the next moment. Lars Koeppl underlines all this in his usage of slow-motion, alternating with shaky shots, quick-pans and fast editing. At times desorienting and spiralling, at other times in fixed camera angles, the final edit of this short further advances the musical idea of a forceful ejection of power. In the process of the shoot, Mr. Koeppl used two different kinds of cameras. One modern model for wide high definition shots and an old VHS camera, that originally was used in german television during the 1990ies. The City Hall in Bonn, built in 1978 was chosen as the location for the shoot. While being praised for its modernistic look into the future at its time of completion, it is now seen as one of the many „Bausuenden“ (Sins of architecture) of post-war Germany and is far from loved by most citizens of Bonn. The short thrives to explore the hidden beauty of this monstrous building, while transforming something seen as ugly by the majority into an aesthetic meditation on transformation, shape and energy.
Biografie des Autors:
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Interpreten und Ort:
Wallfacer (Marius Franke und Johannes Pfingsten) Stadthaus Bonn.
