Tatort:Aufklärung II

Tatort:Aufklärung II

Tatort:Auklärung II – Im Zeichen der Zeichen der Zeichen or Crime Scene:Clarity II – In the Sign of the Signs of the Signs is an essay film which can be seen as a little aesthetic theory and foreground for most of my works. The film picks up an old title and topic of a work from 2015 and is part of an ongoing process of dealing with semiotics and the roles of signs, symbols, metaphors, text and language in the broadest sense. Not only in art but in research and generally in (human) experience.

For Tatort:Aufklärung II Julia Kristevas work, among others, plays a big role. Her development of a quite universal semiotic and cultural theory, that itself is fed by literary and psychoanalytic work; especially Kristevas Revolution in Poetic Language (1974). In particular her understanding of text and textual experience as a ‘crucial’ (in german: ‘entscheidend’) point of human constitution fascinates me, as text is seen as something rather existential, spiritual, adventurous and also quite risky rather than something that belongs into a dead letter office.

As a differant list of references that I’d rather call wells or spirits I want to share with you the main material that I’ve been working with here. (In order of appearance, more or less.)

Lalo Cura

Taktloss

4Trackboy & Echomann

Julia Kristeva

Scarfaces

The Avengers

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Joker

The Dark Knight

Batman

A Beautiful Mind

Guardians of the Galaxy