Stille Post

Stille post is a German game equivalent to the italian "telefono senza fili" (transl: phone without wires), which the Anglo-Saxons call Chinese wisphers. Basically, each person whispers to the next what they understand of the sentence whispered by the previous person, in a chain that can significantly alter its content.

This video was constructed in a seemingly similar way: each artist had to create a video lasting between 5 and 30 seconds, based on the concept of PAUSE, starting from the last frame of the video created by the previous artist. Very importantly, each artist didn't see the entire previous video; they only received the last frame.

Looking at the results, you can see that, in most cases, the recipient didn't put the slightest effort into developing the content of the frame they received, but rather sought an elegant and quick way to discard it and place their own idea. This speaks volumes about the collaborative attitude of artists in general.

I'm not sure I should tell you right away when the videos change (the list appears at the end). However, please note that there are 13 contributions, and two artists didn't comply with the maximum length requirement (30 secs); one exceeded it by only 3 secs, but another went a full 24 secs.

Okay, here's the video. The list of junction points follows.

Stille Post, collaborative project from BUILT. visual communication on Vimeo.

Project Management: BUILT.
Motion Designer:
00:00 Anja Mewes
00:07 Tina Löwenstern
00:33 Media Sound & Pictures
01:06 Jochen Braun
02:00 Marcus Martinez
02:15 Deborah Arp
02:28 Eduard Lefter
02:38 Dennis Herzog
02:53 Kemane Ba
02:58 Dino Muhic
03:28 Jim Tabladillo
03:48 Matthias Winckelmann
04:10 BUILT.
Audio montage: BUILT.

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