Cloud tank
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cloud tank |
| Original title | Cloud tank |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 13 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rainer Eisch |
| production | Rainer Eisch |
| music |
Michael Scheibenreiter , Stefan Kusch |
| camera | Justyna Feicht |
Cloudtank is an experimental film by the artist Rainer Eisch from 2009. The film was inspired by a special effect in which artificial clouds are created using liquids.
Plot / Synopsis
Film history knows a lot of tricks and model building to recreate reality. Realistically simulating elementary forces has a special position and represents a special challenge. Almost all special effects are about simulating reality as faithfully as possible in order to support or accompany the narrative story. Cloudtank does not tell a narrative story, nor does it try to fool reality. With a special effect that artificially simulates clouds, the film shows the idea of clouds and gives the viewer the opportunity to connect what they have seen with their own visual language and thus create their own story. Cloudtank is a short film about the creation of illusions and their dissolution. A film that calls up images seen and thought through clouds from memory and lets us enjoy the pleasure of illusion. When do we believe what we see or when do we want to believe what we see?
Exhibitions (installation version)
- 2010: Exhibition eye illusion. Special Effects in Contemporary Art , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
- 2010: Exhibition "Class, Institute, Workshop", KAI 10 Room for Art / Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
Performances
- 2011: Byron Bay Film Festival 2011
- 2011: fullframe Film Festival 2011, Vienna
literature
- Viola Weigel (ed.): Eye delusion. Special Effects in Contemporary Art , exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2010; ISBN 978-3-86678-379-9