DIETER BEYELSCHMIDT
Flying Piranhas

1990
4:3 color video, 2-ch sound, 7:44 min, U-matic highband transferred to digital [➚]

Director · Writer · Performance · Sound : Rosy Beyelschmidt
Writer · Camera · Sound Design · VFX · Editor : Dieter Beyelschmidt

at: video art, XI Festival International de la Video et des Arts Electroniques, Locarno, CH, 1990 [c] · AVE, internationaal audio visueel experimenteel festival, Arnhem, NL, 1990 [c] · 12. Prix Futura Berlin, Day & Night, Sender Freies Berlin, DE, 1991 [c] · collection: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE, 1991 · Videoformes, International 'Rencontres', Clermont-Ferrand, FR, 1992 [c] · Middleton McMillan Gallery, Charlotte/North Carolina, USA, 1992 [c] · Mediale Hamburg, DE, 1993 [c] · INSTANTS VIDÉO, Marseille, FR [c] · NEXUS Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta/Georgia, USA, 1993 [c] · Kunsthalle zu Kiel, DE, 1993 [c] · AnnArt-5, Trench Art Festival, Sf. Gheorghe, RU, 1994 · Bilder in Bewegung, Künstler & Video/Film 1958-2010, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE, 2010 [c] ...


The video tape 'Flying Piranhas' describes in fictional images the decay of values in a society with the hope of a new beginning on a higher level.