Philippe Schmid

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Le syndrome de l'espion 1990

Nicholas Markarian, a filmmaker confined to a wheelchair, listens to the radio, tuned to a scientific station, in his apartment in a high-rise project. The program being broadcast concerns space travel. Suddenly, a strange cleric appears, followed by two creatures from Jupiter who are looking for a mysterious mineral that causes madness. From the planet Jupiter to the project where he lives, Nicholas Markarian slips into one of the most extraordinary adventures that his imagination has ever allowed him to live. He won't come out of it unscathed.
Max Philipp Schmid

Max Philipp Schmid

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Membrane 2019

Has the catastrophe already happened or is it about to? Two men and a woman sit in their bunker-like apartments, as if they were in a waiting room. Overwhelmed by the flood of media information and guidebook words of wisdom, they seek stability in the piano play of the educated middle-class and Far-eastern self-optimization techniques. Their passive bewilderment turns into frenzied activism. Now something has to happen! But nothing does.
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Scanner 1998

1-channel video, 2-channel installation. In the filming of Scanner a short fragment of a scene out of a horror film was repeatedly shown to an actor and his face was filmed as he watched the scene and described what he was seeing on the monitor screen. Initially, the image was quite distorted through technical scrambling and was only gradually made apparent and decipherable to the actor in several rounds of viewing. With each repeated round as the distortion of the image was decreased, the horror scene conveyed via the actor’s description became increasingly vivid. As well, in the repetition of the rounds in addition to the description, the actor was directed to try to mimetically imitate the figures as they became recognizable to him. The result is a narration in fragments which circles around a dark core. The images appear only fleetingly and variably in the mind of the viewer where they gradually condense into a mysterious scene.
Philipp Schmidt

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