A FEW WORDS

Video collage for radio broadcasting.

Upon completing my studies, I decided to accompany my thesis with a film based on Branimir Šćepanović's book "The Death of Mr. Goluza" and specifically the novella "Shame". I took the plot and amateurishly set up a script. Dragging along several of my friends, we entered unprecedented procedures and unimaginable difficulties. I had previously trained by reading, listening to music and staying up all night to adapt the text and create a rudimentary workshop.

During the shooting, everything was more laborious than I had imagined. It was the time when we were shooting with U-matic, a heavy equipment that cannot be compared to today's. Every idea was tested against reality, lack of means and time. But the tiredness turned into satisfaction when I saw the result in the editing room that the University had given me.

UNITS

• Authority Titles
• Nightmare
• Prologue Emotions
• Waking up
• Flash of Alexandria
• Dragging Shame (Berlin)
• Divine Messages
• The daily Wall
• Living in Wagons
• Nature without image
• Moscow cafe
• Consciousness (Berlin)
• Wall, the other side
• Subway

Idea
from the book "Smrt gospodina Goluze / shame" by Branimir Scepanovic
The death of Mr. Goluza / shame

Implementation
Alexandros Papachristopoulos

Amateur actors
Ergos, Charles von Herrlich, Petra Ziegenbein, Sofocles Tassioulis, Celeste, Dietmar Groebner, Zoe Giannatou, Michil Habermann, Nikos Giannatos, Stavros Panagiotakis

Background music
Nikos Skalkotas, Hendrix, Sofia Vembo, Eddie Harris, Animals, Captain Beefhart, Bach, Oscar Peterson, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Mano Negra, Kurt Weil, Igor Stravinsky, Manos Hadjidakis, Jaco Pastorius

Camera
Matias Maas

‘Sound
Stergios Mountsakis

Music clip
Nikos Gianatos

Titles
George Konstantinou

Original
U-matic & Super 8

Duration
54 minutes

Production
Free University of Berlin 1989-1990

Thanks to:
Lorett Rodriquez-Schaeffer, Peter Thau, Cafe Moscow