Fragil(e) Fragil(e)

FRAGIL(E) is a book and DVD that presents 11 Super 8 films by Helga Fanderl, made between 1986 and 2005. The selected films are a small sample of her large body of work which now includes over 200 Super 8 films. Helga Fanderl uses a shoot and cut technique where the act of perceiving and filming are one and the same. There is no post shot editing involved, everything is done in the camera. The films show what's happening in front of the camera as well as the simultaneous logical process of its transformation by using the chronology of the event as cinematographic writing. Helga Fanderl is accustomed to creating programmes of her films that are specific to each screening. These distinct programmes play on the relationship that each individual film have with each other in terms of subject and style and that make up a coherent world of relations and contrasts.

This DVD contains:

Polar Bear, 1993, 1 min 40 sec
Passers-By, 2000, 3 min 20 sec
Bulrushes, 2003, 2 min 20 sec
Fountain, 1989, 1 min 20 sec
Girls, 1995, 2 min 10 sec
Ferris Wheel, 2000, 2 min 55 sec
Airplanes II, 2001, 3 min 25 sec
Falling Water, 2004, 1 min 20 sec
Under the Water Lilies, 2005, 3 min
Weybridge, 1990, 3 min 25 sec
Fireworks, 2000, 3 min 25 sec

FRAGIL(E) is a book and DVD that presents 11 Super 8 films by Helga Fanderl, made between 1986 and 2005. The selected films are a small sample of her large body of work which now includes over 200 Super 8 films. Helga Fanderl uses a shoot and cut technique where the act of perceiving and filming are one and the same. There is no post shot editing involved, everything is done in the camera. The films show what's happening in front of the camera as well as the simultaneous logical process of its transformation by using the chronology of the event as cinematographic writing. Helga Fanderl is accustomed to creating programmes of her films that are specific to each screening. These distinct programmes play on the relationship that each individual film have with each other in terms of subject and style and that make up a coherent world of relations and contrasts.

This DVD contains:

Polar Bear, 1993, 1 min 40 sec
Passers-By, 2000, 3 min 20 sec
Bulrushes, 2003, 2 min 20 sec
Fountain, 1989, 1 min 20 sec
Girls, 1995, 2 min 10 sec
Ferris Wheel, 2000, 2 min 55 sec
Airplanes II, 2001, 3 min 25 sec
Falling Water, 2004, 1 min 20 sec
Under the Water Lilies, 2005, 3 min
Weybridge, 1990, 3 min 25 sec
Fireworks, 2000, 3 min 25 sec

The DVD itself forms part of a trilingual (English, French, German) book that presents various texts about Helga Faderl's work by Bruno Montels, Peter Z. Herzog and Christine Noll Brinckmann, as well as a bioography and an interview with the artist by Antonie Bergmeir that aims to place the work within its historical context.

Bonus material:
30 minute documentary commented by the artist in English, French, and German as well as an interview (in German with English and French subtitles).