Robert Seidel

_grau

Experimental film

_grau...split seconds...

MF: "...for me life consists of black and white only..."
RS: "...I think there is just the in-between..."

... _grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally. Various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds www.grau1001.de

(The living paintings (Tableaux Vivants) of growing structures branch out over 10:01 minutes (a reference to the binary system by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, where he ascribes 1 to god and 0 to the devil) without ever reaching pure black or white respectively. Every element originates from real experiences and is adapted from my sketches, my own body fragments or scientific visualization methods. For example the first, still colored seconds are the prismatic halos of the collision fading into gray (grau in german) The musical framework connects the memories born out of the dramatic moment to clusters. These are unleashed from the image flux partially - to ease the desired, free associations of the beholder)

biography:

• born 1977 in Jena, Germany, A-levels 1996
• 2 semester biology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universit� Jena
• Foreign term Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford, Great Britain
• 1998-2004 Bauhaus Universit� Weimar, diploma mediadesign
• freelance author and translator in the field of 2d/3d-graphics
• biological 3D-reconstructions
• free artistic works in the field of organic-digital graphics