Der Ausflug / The Getaway

7 min, VHS

deep is a dynamic feedback-effect created by the combined action of a video mixer, a video camera and a beamer. By filming a few seconds of ambient light with a camera directly connected to the beamer, I create a real time feed-back loop which echoes itself throughout the entire length of the video.

Since the feedback doesn’t run by itself, you have to renew the impulse, controlling the speed and frequency through the video-mixer, in order to create the effect of surfing a light-wave, while building it into an expressive film-choreography to the soundtrack of György Legetis „Atmospheres“. This is the same piece of music Stanley Kubrick used at the climax of 2001: A Space Odyssey, accompanying the character Dave’s return to Earth, depicted through a comparable visual feedback technique.