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ELEKTRA 1001
a film by Alena Meier and Wladimir Winter
2005
DVD
duration 10 min
Textfragments from:
Aischylos (Cerophei)
Hugo von Hoffmannsthal (Elektra)
The main character of this video is the stove
"Elektra 1001". In August 2005, "Elektra 1001" shared
a one-room-flat with the artist Wladimir Winter, his wife, and Alena Meier
in Moscow. During the few days remaining before Alena Meier's flight back
to Berlin, she worked with Wladimir Winter on a video about the classical
drama Electra, whose plot could be paraphrased (superficially) as the
female version of the Oedipus story. Based on the photographs Meier and
Winter took in Moscow, and on the many email conversations held afterwards,
the actual film consists of single digital stills. The interjections quote
from Aischylos' and Hugo von Hoffmannsthal's Electra's.
According to the Aristotelian rules, the pictorial part of ELEKTRA 1001
maintains the unity of action, time and space: Within one day, the entire
tragedy unfolds in Winter's kitchen, on his stove. Electra, Orest (her
brother) and Klytaimnestra (their mother) appear as little match- and
apple-figures, while the audience, i.e. the wall paper's pattern, never
ever leave the room. A thunderstorm rises, the sun goes down, and the
stove finally burns itself.
(Bettina Carl)
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