pietà

[video]Flâneu®: konstantinos-antonios goutos

An unsophisticated walk through the city of Athens just a few days before the parliamentary elections of 2007. A girl lying on the ground during the election campaign of the communist party - the struggle for power next to individualist escapist reverie.

open society archives at central european university budapest 2010]

...joined Konstantinos Goutos´ film “Pietà” in underlying exactly the schizophrenic gap between the political ideals of a few and reality for the most. As a flanêur, Goutos shot the scene without purpose nor plan, he tells us only when and where it took place. With our necessity to rebuild narratives, we presume that, meanwhile his accidental walk through the city of Athens just a few days before the parliament elections of 2007, he witnessed a girl lying on the ground – maybe because of drugs – and a friend possibly trying to help. On the background we hear a part of the elections campaign of the communist party in Greece, with popular, protest songs from the sixties, of Mikis Theodorakis… It unpretentiously shows the separation and incommunicability of worlds; how the blind struggle for power runs side by side with individualist escapist reverie.

[liliana rodrigues, art historian 2008]

presentations-installations-film/media/art festivals

-2. grec doc paris france -in competition (march 27th-29th, 2020)

-6th International video art festival camagüey’s FIVAC camagüey cuba (march 31-april 4, 2015)

-frames per second #12 plug projects kansas city usa (october 17, 2014)

-diskurs' 13 festival for young performing arts giessen germany (october 9-13, 2013)

-4th athens biennale 2013 agora online (sept. 29-dec 1, 2013)

-workshop on philosophical and experimental investigation of empathy prague czech republic (september 2013) (not held)

-taking p.art on the strictly curated online platform for the distribution of documentary and experimental films doc alliance (from july 2012)

-woher wohin halle saale germany february 2012

-iv international rights protection film festival steps kiev ucraine november 11-15, 2010

-f-stop 4th international festival of photography leipzig germany [nuit blanche photographique] september 9, 2010

-group exhibition "body" galerija velenje slovenia august 26-september 18, 2010

-experimental video evenings at mac berlijn enschede the netherlands june, 2010

-independent media festival plattform-nobudget may 21-june 5, 2010 tuebingen germany

-3. video art festival budapest hungary crosstalk june 1-6, 2010 (cross talks)

-AnaDoma-FilmVideoFest - Rendezvous der FilmeMacher january 28-31, 2010 braunschweig germany

-rencontres cinematographiques d' aix-en-provence france aixperiment, november 30 – december 5, 2009 (aix-film-festival)

-pantheon Xperimental 8.0 international Xperimental film & video festival 8.0, november 2009 nicosia cyprus

-8. strange screen film & video festival october 2009 thessaloniki greece (in competition)

-perspective the international human rights film festival of nuremberg germany september 30 - october 11, 2009 (as installation)

-international festival for theatre, performance art, dance, fine art wunder der praerie, september 2-12th 2009 mannheim germany

-in the palace 7th international short film festival, june 20-27, 2009 balchik bulgary (industry guide)

-37. festival of the nations june 2009 ebensee austria (in competition)

-44th international popular scientific and documentary film festival AFO olomouc czech republic 14 to 19 april 2009 (doc point)

-i create, therefore i am, december 19, 2008 - february 22, 2009, contemporary art center of thessaloniki greece

-international film festival platforma video 08 november 7-10 athens greece

-temps d' images film award for films on art, november 2008 lisbon portugal

-2. festival of greek film documentaries, october 8-12, 2008 chalkida greece

-16. curtas vila do conde international short film festival july 5-13, 2008 vila do conde portugal (12. short film market)

-48th krakow film festival 30th may - 5th june 2008 krakow poland (krakow film market)

-54. international short film festival oberhausen 1-6 may 2008 oberhausen germany (video library)

-international art festival arte a full january 18th -20th, 2008 leipzig germany

-international documentary film festival cph:dox november 9-18, 2007 copenhagen denmark

a ko.incidental walk through omonoia, the central square of athens,

four days before the national parliament elections of 2007:

a girl lying (because of drugs?) on the ground

a friend (?) tries to help...

from the megaphones we hear a part of the elections campaign of the communist party of greece, with popular, protest songs from the sixties, of mikis theodorakis...

the shot is taken (like always without purpose or plan) on september 12, 2007 at 2:42 p.m. with a normal digital video apparatus

without tripod

without camera moves

without zooming

without special lighting

without extra microphone

without effects

the sound and the length of the shooting are the original

there are no cuts between the scene

Eine Frau liegt auf einem öffentlichen Platz - warum, wissen wir nicht. Ein Mann versucht, ihr zu helfen. Im Hintergrund Ertönen aus Lautsprechern Wahlslogans der kommunistischen Partei Griechenlands. Konstantinos Goutos arbeitet als Videoflaneur und hat diesen Moment vier Tage vor der griechischen Parlamentswahl im Jahr 2007 festgehalten. Kein Schnitt, keine Kamerafahrt. Auf einfache Art und Weise verdeutlicht er damit die Spaltung zwischen unterschiedlichen Welten und zeigt, wie der Kampf um Macht Außenseiter und Tagträumer buchstäblich links liegen lässt.

[humanrightsfilmfestival.org-catalogue]

Eine Frau liegt auf einem öffentlichen Platz am Boden – vielleicht wegen Drogen. Ein möglicher Freund versucht ihr zu helfen, während andere an ihnen vorbei laufen. Im Hintergrund hört man aus Lautsprechern Teile der Wahlkampagne der kommunistischen Partei Griechenlands. Es handelt sich um einen populären Protestsong von Mikis Theodorakis, dessen Musik Ende der 1960er Jahre von den griechischen Obristen verboten wurde.

Zufällig und ohne Ziel hat der griechische Videokünstler Konstantinos Goutos (er selbst bezeichnet sich als »Video-Flâneur«) diesen Moment mit seiner digitalen Videokamera vier Tage vor der griechischen Parlamentswahl im Jahr 2007 festgehalten. Kein Schnitt, keine Kamerafahrt, kein zusätzliches Licht oder Mikrofon. Auf einfache Art und Weise gelingt es ihm damit, die Spaltung und das Versagen an Mitteilbarkeit zwischen unterschiedlichen Welten deutlich zu machen, vor allem wie der Kampf nach Macht Außenseiter und Tagträumer verfehlen kann.

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