(Andreas Hillger, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung 24.01.06)

In Felix Ensslin and Brock Enrights production of Friedrich Schillers “The Robbers” the camera displays the subconciousness of the characters and the person in whose dream all things on stage happen. In the first part of the play, the screen is, partly explicit and partly on an abstract level,  stage for inner conflicts and phantasies.

Apart from doing the live camera on stage, I supported the directors in the conception of the video and by designing video scenes on and behind stage. I emphasized on giving the live video individual aesthetics far from common home video.

To work intuitively I modified my Panasinoc MV-GS400 with a cusom made handle, dimmable light and custom batterie pack.

Excerpts of “The Robbers” by Schiller, Thomas Mann and Nietsche were read by actors accompanied by noise music and videos by Brock Enright. In the last third of the performance a woman “kidnapped” by Enright was tortured and filmed within her own staging of a kidnapping.

The pictures of my camera were projected on a big screen fron stage. I filmed in extreme close-up so the details sometimes blurred into undefinable textures giving way for the imagination of the audience. The audience was tricked into wanting to see more of what it believed was an act of violence it actually rejected to see. Finally, the woman was dragged into the projection by her “kidnappers”, together producing a shadow sculpture within their own image.

Director: Bernd Weißig

„Alices Adventures Under Ground“ is a modern adaption of Lewis Carrols „Alice in Wonderland“. Director Bernd Weißig wanted to use CCD cameras for his production used by actors on and behind the stage. I organised installed the required equipment. During rehearsals I staged some of the video scenes and assisted the director in the implementation of the video scenes.

For the entry of the Cheshire Cat the face of the actress was projected on the brown paper stage setting (designed by Franz Zauleck). By holding white boards into the projection the mouth and one eye were accentuated spatially through the difference in sharpness and contrast. They appeared to float in space.

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Director: Hartmut Wickert