Müllerdechiara is pleased to announce Susanne Weirich’s exhibition featuring her new film and installation Silent Playground opening the 19th of March.
Silent Playground explores the genre of video games through cinematic aesthetics and the thought process of chance. Weinrich has created an installation in the gallery simulating the experience of moving through virtual spaces and game-like situations of decision-making. Viewers are invited to walk through a series of doorways activating film sequences of randomly selected action scenes in Weinrich’s unfolding narrative. The viewer becomes responsible for the result of their action. Similar to survival logic computer games such as Project Zero or Silent Hill 3, each sequence illustrates two possible endings – good or bad. The visitor is forced to use their imagination and make associations in the open formulated stories. The gallery becomes a PlayStation-like setting and the visitor is part of the game.
Weirich produced Silent Playground with a Berlin based film crew shot in the President Suite of the Grand Hyatt Berlin. Featuring the renowned film and theatre actress Inga Busch as the protagonist. A Steady Cam follows the game figure (Busch) through various scenarios transforming her into a hyper realistic avatar. The aesthetics of the cinematic approach is reminiscent of movies such as Matrix, Lost Highway or Blade Runner with a typical PlayStation appearance.
Over the last fifteen years Susanne Weirich has been working on media-based installations centered on narrative structures and the interaction of reality and fiction in everyday parallel worlds. She analyzes a particular genre of mass culture, exploring references to contemporary film and clichéd notions of problem solving onto reality.
Cast: Director and Script: Susanne Weirich , Actress: Inga Busch, Camera: Florian Foest : Editing: Wolf-Ingo Römer P/A: Jessica Páez, Makeup: Julia Neuenhausen, Consulting: Robert Bramkamp, HFF Babelsberg Special thanks to Kirsten Ellerbrake.
