UHT (PIPES)

FILM/VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2013

Photo: Patrick Alan Banfield
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 length of a well-known radio song from the 80s forms the auditory and temporal basis.

UHT and Pipes, 2013
Single screen film + Video Installation
7:80 min, HD, stereo audio
Courtesy: Patrick Alan Banfield

 

Editing: Nicolas C. Geissler

The film “Pipes” runs on a loop and is shown in a very bright room with other works. A special speaker, the “SoundTube” system, is used to produce sound in a very limited area. Entering the room, one could distantly hear the soundtrack of the film, “Down Under” by the Australian band Men at Work. It sounded a bit like workers on a nearby construction site listening to music from the radio. Other elements of the film include the Iranian TV show “Double Standards” hosted by Afshin Rattansi, a satirical show that often pokes fun at Israel and the Western world, and images of an unknown tattooed man.

Stills of Pipes, 2013
Full version of Pipes, 4:28 min., 2013
Photo: Patrick Alan Banfield
Installation view at Städelschule, Frankfurt, 2013
Photo: Patrick Alan Banfield
Installation view at Städelschule, Frankfurt, 2013