Konstantinos-Antonios Goutos (Greece/Germany)

Dustin! (20032009)

Program: Vernissage Pavilion B Friday (19.03) 09:00 p.m.

Konstantinos-Antonios Goutos – born in 1973 in Larissa, Greece. At the moment he lives and works in Leipzig (Germany) and on the Internet. In the last two years he has been taking part in more than 80 film/media/art events in Europe, America and Asia with more than 40 different works and he has been video/strolling (in) more than 35 cities.

PROJECT [video]Flâneu®

An artist walks like Flâneur through the city. He does not have a turtle with him (as the original Parisian Flâneur of the 1830‘s used to); later, he does not write stories (as Edgar Allan Poe or Hans Christian Andersen used to), he does not write poems (as Baudelaire or Rilke used to). He has only a video camera. He takes shots of the city; he takes shots of the life of the people of the city, sometimes, he also shoots himself (...without camera moves, without a zoom lens, without special lighting, with original sound, without permission); he puts the scenes together with no chronological sequence and under different contexts:

tales and history, reactions – relations, sounds – words, lights - colours, structures - architectures, incidents – accidents, order – disorder… Not a description of a journey, but my lyric reaction, with all my truth and simplicity as Federico Garcia Lorca once said about his collection A Poet in New York.

Films of Vertov, Haneke, Benning, Penalva or Juergen Boettcher; paintings of Bosch, Breughel, Giorgione, Rembrandt or Strawalde; photos of Atget, Stieglitz, Friedlander, Lartigue or Cartier-Bresson; texts of Benjamin, Krakauer, Bazin, McLuhan or Vilém Flusser are important works for dialog and inspiration…

It is not fiction because, with a few exceptions, it is based wholly on unstylised reality. It is not documentary because the reality is not organized into an explanation of itself. And it is not cinéma-vérité because the artist shoots and manipulates his unstylized reality in such a way that the result has style. Gene Youngblood`s Expanded Cinema (1970)

Dustin!

Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt, February the 4th, 2003, 8:31 pm, below-zero temperature. The Golden Camera Awards Ceremony. In a few minutes, Dustin Hoffman will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award…

Security guys, professional and amateur cameramen, fans, they are all waiting of his arrival… A non spectacular documentary take, taken with a common digital video camera, investigates the human reactions on glamour, stars and fame…