2006-11
ALIAS YEDERBECK

In the framework of POTSDAM 2011 – CITY OF THE FILM, under the fictional pseudonym or heteronym “Paul Yederbeck“, Frank Geßner staged the expanded animation project ALIAS YEDERBECK. The polystylistic, large-scale cinematographic installation intertwines elements of visual arts with media art and architecture, film, video, animation, and sound in a metafictional performance.

The “auto-(author-)constructs” of the painting cycle TESTE SANS FIN and the associated multimedia archive material form the basis of twelve nonlinear panoramic sequences: Entertainer, Flaneur, Spectator, Actor, Dissolution, Projection, Anima Techne, Transcendental Animation, Happy End, Doppelganger, Reminder, The End (12-channel movie, 63:00 min), and the artist video QU’EST-CE QUE MONSIEUR TESTE? (single-channel movie, 26:00 min).

Frank Geßner realized the artistic research project with *ATELIER BERLIN PRODUCTION and was supported in this hybrid experiment by friends, as well as alumni of and colleagues at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (formerly HFF “Konrad Wolf“ Potsdam-Babelsberg).

Founded and supported by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the Erich Pommer Institut, the city of Potsdam, the Filmmuseum Potsdam, Kulturland Brandenburg, the Kunstraum Potsdam, 360° Waschhaus Potsdam, Arri Rental, Taucher Sound Environments, Nipkow Programm, AdSolute Media Monitoring Solutions, cine plus Berlin, rbb Berlin-Brandenburg, and Re:Voir Paris.