A short documentary film about night work at Bierhübeli the popular culture club in Bern, Switzerland.
The main point of my documentary was to give the audience the opportunity to see the night workers and in this way provoke them to contemplate on work of people who are behind the bar and dance floor. Work at the disco or pub isn’t considered as a serious job, and often people doing it are thought not to work at all. On the other hand, I gave the night workers the chance to speak for themselves and present their occupation the way it really is.
An old man (Hans Witschi) is tired of bleak and dreary everyday life. He needs a change in his life to get rid of his loneliness. This inner urge leads him to invent a new language which becomes henceforth the center of his life. But what happens to his loneliness?
Based on a short story by Peter Bichsel of the same title, the film
“a table is a table” spellbinds and yet moves the viewer with its characteristic monotony. Marc Hayoz, tutor ROJ
This film is Christoph Jehle and Joel Kuhn’s graduation piece from the vocational school ROJ.
Another test for our medi259 project, filmed in HD with a Sony HDR FX1, edited in final cut, colour graded with apple color and stabilized with apple motion. The miniature set was built with natural materials. A Co-Work with Christoph Jehle
To try out the new Fisheye lens of the Uni Media Hub, I took some pictures of my friends. The film (Fujii Neopan 1600) has been taken with a Nikon F4s.
Christoph Jehle
Philipp Condrau
Gemma Taylor
Anna Latos
Me
Campus
Film: Fujii Neopan 1600
I have chosen these two images as my final piece for the module MEDI263 (Photographic narrative). The project is about staging a place with the stuff that can be found around there. As I was staging the place I also intended to intervene into the actual Image by intensifying the colours and contrast to achieve kind of an unreal atmosphere. Apart from staging the place, the image represent past and future at the same time. The old rundown furniture stands for the past while the signboard on the upper right is about planing to construct a new building there.
For our first project in MEDI259 Christoph and I want to create an experimental short film focussed on working with a miniature set. From the beginning we were fascinated by this way of experimental filming, because it makes the viewer feel as if it were a ‘‘real’’ environment. For this reason, we would like to work with this method but also to improve our technical skills in practical areas like modelling, filming, lighting as well as working with various softwares.
Mood Visualisation
Synopsis: We find ourselves in a fairytale idyll of a similar look of ‘‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’’: Discreet nature sounds and soft music accentuate the unique and mystical atmosphere. From far away we can hear a humming engine and a loud bass beat coming closer. Shortly after that a car door being opened and loudly slammed. An insensitive tourist enters the fairytale world. He gruffly scrunches some flowers, throws an empty can of Coke on the ground while taking pictures of the area like a paparazzi would take them of his victim. Then the tourist leaves and we can hear him drive away.
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Drawings: Christoph Jehle
As Christoph Jehle and I wanted to experiment with analog film processes, we developped an ilford pan 100 b&w film with wine instead of water. We wanted to find out how the negatives might differ to standard processed films. The interesting thing was, that there actually was a big difference. After processing the film we noticed that it got a very flat undersaturated look. Later on the scanning programm confirmed us that there were no high and low levels at all whereas the midtones were quite distinctive.
We still couldn’t find out the reason for this chemical reaction.
A selection of edited pictures
As the high and low levels were missing on this film, I had to edit them heavily in Photoshop. Here’s a comparison of the original Scan (left) and the edited Image (right).
Making of:
For my photography module MEDI263 I took some shots down at Mutley on an Ilford FP4 Plus 125 black & white film with a Hasselblad medium format camera. For this module I’d like to stage abandoned places and build up kind of a film set just by using the objects which can be found there. For my final prints I’m going to work with colour films to achieve a more convincing aesthetic of the scenery.
Ilford FP4 Plus, Hasselblad medium format camera
