Geert Wachtelaer is trained as a filmmaker not as an artist. His work concentrates on universal human experiences, birth, death and the secrets of the human consciousness, and found its roots in the psychoanalytical foundation . It has autobiographical elements or his own obsessions and fantasies in it. The video's bring a hidden knowledge to the audience : that what is already inside of the audience. People do not know if they necessarily enjoy the video's, but it holds them in a spell. He's also investigating new methods, new ways to express our deeper needs inside a man's soul.
The experimental investigation addresses to the whole field of the audio-visual arts, as well to the outside – where a dialogue is possible with the other arts – as within – where the audio-visual arts are confronted with itself.
The work must testify of autonomy, resistance and a personal and renewing character. It must give also proof of audio-visual language skills, productional competence and understanding his own intentions, the maker must struggle a long way to reach the contextual position of his work.
Curiosity and imagination: Put in question of the obvious and the known. Instrumental manipulations.
Control and view: The usage and investigation of the techniques. Audio-visuals thinking from personal vision. Making your intentions real and show it to an audience. Communication with the spectator. Audio-visual competence and understanding in the individual orientation and the personal developed universe in proportion with various past and current audio-visual expressive art practices.
The aim throughout is to contribute to an in-depth and properly international discussion of the implications of contempory videoart and cinema.
These works, “dematerialized” or freed from the physicality of painting or sculpture, thus “secured a higher purity”, at a remove from art objects' recuperation into commodity forms.
Evidently a different nature opens itself to the camera than opens to the naked eye … the camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
The film becomes an occasion of discovery, but instead of mystification, its sublimity comes from the celebration of what one already understands: the film as its own subject.
See also : www.geertwachtelaer.com
Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?
Production : Condor Director / editor / compositing : Jean-Paul Frenay Main 3D artist / compositing : Sandro Paoli 3D artists : Sylvain Jorget and Sébastien Desmet Additional 3D operators : Otto Heinen and Okke Voerman Sound Design : Seal Phüric feat. Neptunian8
De retour de notre Bénélux Tour, nous sommes conquis par l'accueil chaleureux que nous avons eu, merci, même si nous ne t'avons vu, merci. Et on espère à très bientôt, on compte bien y revenir!
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Hehe. "Dead inside again" refers to looking into the abyss of my soul. Despair has a hold on me and the "heart" is at the onset of structural repairs. :) Grim irony at best.
