video art

This is my newest project: Lumiere Videos. Here are the rules: 60 seconds max., Fixed camera, No audio, No zoom, No edit, No effects.

To see my examples click on a picture above.

The brothers Lumiere were film pioneers, they did the first movie screening, what is considered the birth of cinema. In that time they had no sound, the film length was limited and editing and effects was not invented yet, neither camera movement. In Berlin they called the first movie screenings "Bewegte Riesen-Photographien" translated "Moving Gigantic Photographies".

I am originally a photographer and this style of filmmaking matches a ground rule of film shooting what I learned from my father: the action happens in front of the camera, you observe what happens, you don't need to move the camera.

"All the World is a Stage" -William Shakespeare

I don't need to direct or to stage the story, it is already there. Observing and the right timing lets you discover the story. Nothing else is needed.