Directing
A spot for Absolut Vodka shot on video by Mario Schifano and Roberto Lucca Taroni.
Two frantic views of Roberto Taroni and Luisa Cividin’s private life in New York. The first faces a double window at night, with Cividin smoking and getting dressed while Taroni putters around; the second shows a studio-like wide room, a toilet and ironing board, with Taroni looking lost in some work while now Cividin putters around. – Olaf Möller
A landscape shot during a journey is deconstructed, measured, and recomposed using the rear-view mirror of a van, the external viewfinder of a camera, and a hand.
A free form film poem. Moving through inside and outside spaces Luisa Cividin unties a knot made with two curtains. Followed by Roberto Taroni smoking until he starts to turn around his axis, first in front of the window with the now re-tied curtains and then in slow motion seemingly in front of some stairs. A 70s enigma. – Olaf Möller
Doing the America thing: riding around in a car, looking out at the landscape (desert, trees and bushes, cities), observing the driver, enjoying the ride as a pure, almost primeval cinematic act. All bookended by phantom rides through the bright lights of Las Vegas. – Olaf Möller
Shots of the protagonist’s mouth and face as he speaks during a train journey, interspersed with close-ups of TV texture and images of a dark environment in which fluorescent lights stand out. The male actor’s voice is dubbed with a recording of Meret Oppenheim reading her poems.
A brief tracking shot between two train stations in Wuppertal is repeated six times with imperceptible breaks; the seamless audio results in a shift in perception, rendering what is actually fragmentary but repetitive unitary but different.
