wooden carved Fortune can be seen ... The dog's coronation me look good-hearted and tolerant of the glass eyes, the brown head in the showcase!. seems to beg for petting. The rest of the body, or what's left of him is spread out behind it, a bedside rug. Everyone knows Patzen robbery or zebra skins prepared with heads out, mostly as a colonial film props. Famous is the tiger from "Dinner for One", through which a certain James Buttler stumble year after year. This rug is but a dog. I firmly believe there is a small red-brown mixed breed Labrador, the other Adversianer tap dachshund. But what a dog this one may be, the fact that someone has made a rug out of it is so bizarre that we have to laugh at. The Skurilität this vision is increased by two stuffed squirrels, which seem to nestle gently on the head of the dog. In addition to this cozy ensemble a bird skeleton spreads in a bell jar unbefiederten the wings, and behind all, the majority of the cabinet agreed nahmend itself depends stoically a real human skeleton on the stand. For 2500th - you could take it as a new WG-comrades back home. Whether the dog belonged to the former owner of the bone alive? We do not know and remain confined only briefly by the sight, for the whole space around us is at least as skuril as the display case just described. From the ceiling hang old prosthetic legs, under a heavy old industrial drill peered out a pig's skull, a high man bellows from an old forge built threatens us from the right, behind us, in a large metal shelves, contain some dried mummies of cats, birds and rats behind glass. Old dental chairs, strange lights and display cases full of old medical instruments, lined up as the tools of a particularly neat torture master, complete the picture. Robert Haussner, artist and antique dealer, has an obvious eye for the morbid. Striking the white, mummified (peace) lies on the old deaf theater sword, which is held by a severed hand mannequins. Subtly creepy contrast, gives us a old worker shoes a touch of goose bumps. Illuminated from above into a small operating light, indoors, in the heel, a hand mirror is attached, so that you can see the many cockroaches dried cocoons, which fill the shoe. The horror hidden in the small, secretive approach. Not to imagine the face, that the unfortunate man would have done in the morning put on his shoes when the eggs had been fresh.
We are in a strangely nostalgic world between now and then, in the Leipzig arsenal. Not an old armory, as the history should be named after my experts, but simply a house full of stuff. In the heyday of industrialization and urban expansion in 19. Century built, there was once a Catholic school. Meanwhile, the many rooms a kind of alternative lumber-room, from different flea and antique dealers rented as retail space. A multi-story maze of rooms and corridors, is crammed to the ceiling with antiques and trinkets, with ornate cabinets, mirrors, chairs, paintings, strollers, clothes, toys, school supplies, works of art. Also filled with history, memories, fates. You breathe the scent of peace, remembrance and decay. If all these things started to tell her story at the same time - you would have to be their ears when all the shouting and whispering.
So the ideal place to shoot a video Adversus.
decide if indie bands to share a clip, then they look for (or often the record company for them) usually a business. This organization then hop a studio, installed a smoke machine, with some bright spots and laser guns, leaving the band then a bit up and down. The whole thing is cut and ready fast is Germany's new superstar.
man can it be done differently and try to tell a story. We take this second route, which was before many fear, for a certain drop height can not be disputed.
three months I had planned. Have with the owners of the arsenal discussed, twice visited the location, mood scribbles have created three plans written, organized people and equipment are trained on the band my plans. The actual history of the project is even much longer. Two years ago I started to model the virtual spaces and strange characters and illuminate that will revive a part of the video. The "thing in the Mirror" is more than a little horror story, it is literally reflection. The encounter with the other self, the terror of the unknown, of which one's self. And Finally, the cross over to the other side of the mirror, the reconciliation with the darker half of the Ego.
is staged to see the video as a mix of puppet-like computer animation and live action shots and I do not care how skuril, "gruftig" or strange our critics the result. "A thing in the mirror" is also a clear commitment to black romance and the beauty that lies in each death. This also seems the bird mummy to see them hanging with ausbereiteten wings over us, cast in resin and incorporated as an eye catcher in an impressive sculpture of Hausner. The animated story is ready to two-thirds, said live action, we want to turn now in the arsenal.
The timetable is tight and Mattis, our young camera man of his character Student of photography and stage design at the Design Academy Offenbach-their hands full, to oversee the construction of the equipment. Devotedly he bolted to the trimming of the floating frame, a device that allows him to shoot blur-shots with a handheld camera. As if on rails and very acts the result of a clean pan, if he manages to keep the rickety construct in the balance. Fourteen heads among our crew, had a whole van full of film equipment, instruments and luggage unloaded and is provided at the right time with the appropriate person in each space provided. Chaos threatens, but the rose arbor shooting schedule is tight and inexorably to its structure.
The desired look of the videos is to have a haunted, dirty and old atmosphere. Filmed in confinement and chaos. But this chaos has to work with it, be a controlled, tamed chaos. So we have to tackle. As in swarming locusts covered Adversianer her a room, get into a true decorative noise clear to all that hang 4 meters from high windows, lay power cables through the dilapidated buildings, have antique wardrobes and lumber mysterious shine in the spotlight and soon resound the enchanted acting course again by the sounds of the song.
While I, the shooting schedule in mind, Helpers and musicians is frightened away by junk it yourself, good souls in the background and make their own way for the smooth running of the shoot. Caroline, for me personally as an icon of black-romantic style, and among all the inglorious but sometimes a little over-styled neo-Victorians a pleasingly pretty exceptional, is responsible for the mask. She worried not only that our old wedding dress diva, but also constantly bustles and try dabbing a manner which make up around us, always for our good looks. What with all the other works very well, of course, only me again al, because of Mr. Rose Dorn is expected that he pulls faces, through the area and raises at all: snaps befitting ... and in high summer, with the windows closed and the hot ticket throwing sweat. There can be no wiping and no spots, I can see after a few minutes "bleeding like a pudding with chocolate sauce. The second good spirit in the team is Marlis a little of everything and is responsible for catering. If they do not polish the fingerprints of mirror props must be investigated or rushing through the buildings and people that I need just on the set, it ensures all of our physical well-being and hands us slices and melon slices. I must reject the latter thanks to the general running of the Rose Thorn's face does not also have to contend sticking.
Mattis is now, if not to despair, yet very needed. For the location may also be interesting: it is a cinematic challenge. Narrow and claustrophobic should work the video. Accordingly, little space we have all in some places. Power we have to get through up to 30 meters long cable runs cause and distributed to multiple circuits, so that we do not fly out the fuses. The headlights are so hot that one can only touch it with gloves and some of the large display cases, with their true up to a hundred year old glass of dangerous objects. If our Sebastian as the guitar solo to the neck of his Saitenaxt then pop in, he was overwhelmed by meter-long glass daggers, which, while good on the history of the song, but fit less well with the image of the band would. So be careful, because in small pieces shattering glass is an invention of the postwar period.
The many levels, we work with are difficult props. As funny as it is, the film a half of the band through a mirror, it's also annoying when you accidentally shoots believed hiding cables and lights (or the shadow of the director) with. Accordingly, some often-se banal scenes are repeated. Other funny margins provide amusement, as if the singers in their opulent dresses with dramatic gestures through the maze of furniture and sing with her accidentally - like sharp corners depend on open-permanent hoop skirts all cabinet doors.
Almost ten hours, we turn almost constantly. For the other musicians that is so far right, they must not participate in any setting and may change between every now and then feast on the catering or loll in the mask. For camera swivels Mattis and for me in my capacity as a director-dictator from the service but it says: persevere and continue, until all the scenes i have box. But we learn a lot and we shall be rewarded by many impressions.
is interesting it in the evening, as we all required settings have recorded and can now work more freely. The walk-in customers of the arsenal is long gone, the whole building is empty, just us and the owner, Robert, are still in the house. Now, immersed in the twilight of the old lamps, this place is only developed its true, strange attraction.
enchanted How are the rooms and corridors in the shadows, now the old things seem to whisper to us is really their day secret stories. Alone I walk in a shooting break down the aisles ...
There: a shrill cry, then children crying, then more shrill cries. What was that? The song playback sounded different somehow ...
Robert has probably turned on the telly and looks splatter films. If we have made it so?
Anyway, now that we are alone in this old house, among all these souvenirs of long-dead people ... As you throw ever now and then a curious, nervous look in the antique mirror in which one comes over. I was there in the reflection or was there someone behind me?
... Or was there perhaps something else?
