This release comes with a DVDR containing mp3 files (3.22 GB, 14 files with a total duration of 39 hours, 56 minutes, 14 seconds). These are exactly the same fils as the ones recorded with the recorder Zoom H2. No mastering or editing has been done. “A group of diverse people calls a meeting, setting a place and a time. They meet. Each one brings the things they think are necessary. The “opening-up” to action is big. They disuss and reach agreements. They have to manage that shared time in the search for freedom. They select a place, make it theirs, precariously theirs. What is the potential of that meeting, of that time lived in common? They have to make decisions and try to create a collective space, not exempt from disapprovals. Apart from the physical space they might find (that could not be found), first there is a social space that has to be built up to very basic levels. Many of the problems come directly from that. How long can they endure? What will they be able to do? How much of the potential of the action lies in their own capacity for meeting together and dealing with uncertainty? What would be left if they didn’t do anything except be in an abnormal situation? How many different situations can the general situation contain? What is it that will give the right levels of intensity?”
A Film by Oswald Wiener, Vienna 1965. Austrian artist Domink Steiger (born 1940) as ’a child’. Dressed up in a sailor suit, playing with himself and toys on a roof-top and out in the streets and at a playground with other children under the suspicious eyes of mid 1960’s Vienna inhabitants. This work could be seen as some sort of an (unintended) Steiger-esque version of the "Wiener Spaziergang" action by Günter Brus which coincidently happened the same year in the same city. But this film is not just a documentation of a happening but an experimental film by Oswald Wiener (b.1935), one of the founding members of the ’Wiener Gruppe’. Filmed with a Super 8 camera and edited by hand, with fast cut’s and short bursts of over-exposure. Edition of 100 numbered copies of which 50 copies are available to distributors.
Super 8 and video with images made in the mountains around Grenoble and all edited at home. Music taken from Ground Zero, Antez, Tibet’s Bonpos, Ali Reza Mashayeki, Ulan Bator. This film is a poem about life and death, life and war. Now it exists also with English subtitles.