Du Bist Nicht Allein/You Are Not Alone [With CDROM] [German]

By Katja Blomberg and Bjørn Melhus

Bjorn Melhus is a video artist who has not only consummately mastered film language and digital image technology, but who, with the theme of the twin or Doppelganger, has also found a way to connect our time's most current themes: du bist nicht allein -- you are not alone is the horror vision of cloning humans and the question of the maintenance of an identity and self in the epoch of rapidly changing cultural identities and their media reflections. Bjorn Melhus deals with pop culture's worlds of image and sound in a seemingly playful way. By playing all the roles in his films himself, Melhus embodies an inner division that concerns us all. Where is the boundary between the I and the You? What patterns of action and experience influence us, now that even childhood is plugged in to the worlds of commercial film and television? What kinds of projection surfaces confront us? Are we manipulated, or do we manipulate ourselves? Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3933257557
• ISBN13: 9783933257550
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 9.1"