Freude (Delight)

Freude (Delight)
Freude (Delight)

2009, Austria, 35mm on video, colour, music by Holrich Gelken, 3 min.

Decaying, festering, decomposing, weathering: Thomas Draschan’s latest work, which premiered in Rotterdam, is a visual feast, a popular-cultural tempest of images, a masterwork exploding on the screen. This is pure film - in form, rhythm and montage.

Digitized high resolution images form a rapid flow of visual associations. A filmic Larg Hadron Collider that let's images explode in the viewer’s head. Micro and macrocosm, sex and religion, old Egypt and the Space age are juxtaposed in this purely cinematic 35mm piece. A “theory of everything” way before modern physics could come up with one.