Carbonization
CARBONIZATION FILM/VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2021 Still of Carbonization The essay film „Carbonization“ (2021) uses the high-quality imagery of advertising videos by major bicycle manufacturers as found footage in an uncanny, deconstructive narrative to tell the story of both carbon as a lightweight material and the bicycle as a superior means of transport. Carbonization, together with Nicolas […]
Drive Crisis Preacher
„Drive Crisis Preacher“ is a virtual reality environment. The scenography of a fictional cyberpunk dystopia merges with old and new video and sculptural works to create an immersive VR experience. Visitors are invited to explore this world and its spatial and narrative situations. „Drive Crisis Preacher“ consciously quotes the narrative forms and aesthetics of cyberpunk and synthwave music.
The Last Resort
THE LAST RESORT FILM/VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2019 Installation view at HfG and ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2020 Photo: Anselm Buder Installation view at Galerie Klinger, Karlsruhe, 2019 A previously failed interview with a group of animal and human rights activists is re-enacted. With their extreme willingness to use violence, the activists herald a new stage in the escalation […]
Saulus Taunus
Saulus Taunus Video INSTALLATION, 2018 Installation view at MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, 2018 „Saulus Taunus“ is a dense video installation about men destroying the world. Three narrators‘ voices address the viewer. The objects, cities, beings, and documentary scenes in the film are observations I make. The intuitive editing is an attempt to be political in a […]
My View/ Mein Blick
My VIEW/MEIN BLICK VR-INSTALLATION, 2018 Installation view at Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, 2018 The immersive Virtual Reality installation „My View/Mein Blick“ by artist Patrick Alan Banfield forces up the viewers visual habits and perception of their digital dominated day-to-day life. My View/Mein Blick, 2017/2018VR installation10:07 min, 360-degree video, ambisonics audioOffice chair, Gaming PC, Oculus […]
No hydra
No hydra FILM/VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2017 Installation view of No Hydra The Greek island of Hydra was once an island full of rivers and water. The film „No Hydra“ shows the vegetation and landscape, the village settlement, harbour facilities and local population alongside tourists. But the real leading role is played by a mysterious man whom […]
Pow Pow
POW POW FILM/VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2015 Still of Pow Pow, 2015 Do trees, plants, leaves, rivers, waterfalls, the sky, the earth, stones and rocks have a nationality? Patrick Alan Banfield travelled 8,000 km across Canada to film nature and a shaman, portraying an abstract Canada that remains elusive and whose images are distorted. Pow Pow, 2015Two-screen […]
Salix
SALIX FILM/VIDEO INSTALLATION, PHOTO SERIES, 2013 „Formal“ (Salix series), Endura Ultra photograph, 180 X 240, 2013 The Salix series (2013) traverses an almost dystopian farmhouse on the German/French border where an elderly couple live and work. The work explores the construct of ‚home‘ and the dignified aging of the German post-war generation. Salix, 2013Two screen […]
UHT
UHT (PIPES) FILM/VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2013 Installation view at Städelschule, Frankfurt, 2013 The video installation „UHT“ (2013) shows the film „Pipes“, which poetically interweaves a satirical programme of the Iranian state television „Press TV“, which pokes fun at Israel and Saudi princes, a helicopter flight, a snow-covered radio tower and a mysterious, tattooed stranger in spring. […]
The Mill
THE MILL FILM/VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2013 Still of The Mill, 2013 In „The Mill“ from 2013, slow camera movements in the middle of a snow-covered landscape alternate with bodies of water. A sonorous voice tells a poem about a mysterious mill in the forest, which, like the miller, is never seen. The Mill, 2013Single screen film, […]