KOPFKINO (head cinema) from Stuart Meyers on Vimeo.
We are living a nightmare. Our universe, once whole, is now split. Disparate parts of ourselves are fighting for togetherness. Desire is a terrible inconvenience.
“KOPFKINO,” meaning “head cinema” in German, is about the movies we create inside our conflicted minds. Scenes from German Expressionist horror pictures (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Nosferatu) play in repeat, rewinding and fast forwarding an interior film-reel near ruin. Old images are reformed into an uncomfortably contemporary composition, and a revival of German Expressionism, an anxious post World War I, pre-World War II response, describes a landscape not so different from our own.
Performed in Movement Research @ The Judson Church (NYC), CPR's Spring Movement (NYC), NDA's Performance Mix Festival (NYC) and Lake Studio's SUBMERGE Festival (Berlin)
“KOPFKINO,” meaning “head cinema” in German, is about the movies we create inside our conflicted minds. Scenes from German Expressionist horror pictures (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Nosferatu) play in repeat, rewinding and fast forwarding an interior film-reel near ruin. Old images are reformed into an uncomfortably contemporary composition, and a revival of German Expressionism, an anxious post World War I, pre-World War II response, describes a landscape not so different from our own.
Performed in Movement Research @ The Judson Church (NYC), CPR's Spring Movement (NYC), NDA's Performance Mix Festival (NYC) and Lake Studio's SUBMERGE Festival (Berlin)