Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani

10 sec. thinking about the future

Berlin [sunrise]

16mm, film-loop, colour, 5 min., 2001

In 2001, we asked Berliners at sunrise in front of clubs or on their rooftop to look into the lens of a 16 mm Bolex film camera and think about the future for 10 seconds. Inspired by the “thought photography“ in the early times of photography, as researchers like Marie Curie found out about the phenomena to to visualize radiation.

Movie
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Berlin(sunrise) - 10 sec. thinking about the future
16mm, film-loop, colour, 5 min., 2001
(excerpt 10 sec.)

About Film Installation
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For the Snowscape Moere Festival, a winter art exhibition at the Moerenuma Park in Sapporo, we realised a multiscreen video installation in collaboration with the architect Shinichiro Akasaka. On a number of tents, made of semitransparent snow-resistant cloth, that correspond with the glass pyramid of Isamu Noguchi in a temporary skyline, we projected 5 videos with portraits of people of different european and japanese cities, that think about the future for 10 seconds. It is an elusive image, just like a snowflake.