Berlin Fever

Berlin Fever (1973)

Berlinfieber – Wolf Vostell

In 1973, Wolf Vostell, an artist associated with Fluxus, made a happening in which participants were required to perform a series of ritual, obsessive actions, such as “go to the trunk of your vehicle, there open and close the trunk 750 times and 375 times put a white plate in it and take it out 375 times.” Described by Ottinger as a documentation of what Vostell called “dé-coll/age-happening”, the film is an illustration of her creative method, a surrealist act, a separate work of art, and a strange object. She would later describe her method as “fragments of reality assembled in an unusual manner”.

Date of release
1973-10-01
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
12m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Ulrike Ottinger

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