The film essay combines water images with sound clips from cinematic history. Water-falls, locks, dams, baths, sewage plants and more. Often we don’t immediately see what contains or directs the water: dreary architecture. At one point the superimposed images are compressed into a flashing montage with a worrying undertone. With no explanations given, the film collage illuminates mankind’s relationship to water: devotion, subjugation, utilisation, pollution, dependence, worship…
About the artist
Carsten Aschmann lives and works in Hanover, Germany. He studied experimental film at the HBK Braunschweig in Gerhard Büttenbender and Birgit Hein’s film class. In 1996 he was honoured as “Meisterschüler” of the HBK film class. For the last few years he has frequently worked as an editor and producer with hula-offline on documentary projects. Mainly he is a filmmaker, and a screenwriter. His films are screening worldwide. Festivals worldwide include Rotterdam, Berlin, Montreal, Kelibia, Saint Petersburg, Arnhem, Wrocław, Cracow, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Valencia, Utrecht, Lisbon, Mexico City (s. also www.hula-offline.de).
Gas Avalon (2011)
Ketamine – Behind The Light Video-Diary IV (2009)
Kill Time (2006)
Batterie RK – Schlagzeugen (2005)
Trumpet For Love (2004)
Kick Robot (2002)
Rendezvous (1993)
Uterus in Legoland (1988)
