DIETER BEYELSCHMIDT
Who killed the sandman?
1991
4:3 color video, 2-ch sound, 7:16 min, U-matic highband transferred to digital [➚]
Director · Writer · Performance · Sound : Rosy Beyelschmidt
Writer · Camera · Sound Design · VFX · Editor : Dieter Beyelschmidt
at: Tage des unabhängigen Films, Siegen, DE, 1991 ·
collection: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE, 1991 ·
Tokyo Video Festival, JP, 1992 · (Award) ·
Niedersächsische Videotage Salzgitter 1992 (Award) ·
Middleton McMillan Gallery, Charlotte/North Carolina, USA, 1992 [c] ·
Mediale Hamburg, DE, 1993 [c] ·
Prix Futura Berlin, Nights of Fiktion, Sender Freies Berlin, DE, 1993, [c] ·
National Video Festival, Hollywood, The American Film Institut, Los Angeles, USA, 1993 [c] ·
The 2nd International Soureh Video Festival, Teheran, IR, 1994 ·
AnnArt-5, Trench Art Festival, Sf. Gheorghe, RU, 1994 ·
Bilder in Bewegung, Künstler & Video/Film 1958-2010, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE, 2010 [c] ...
Who killed the sandman' traces the probably last thoughts of an imaginary being, the sandman.
He, who always stood for the good dreams, feels his dwindling power and ever diminishing influence vis-à-vis man, who is subject to the juggernaut of the everyday, and finds himself increasingly in confrontation with other dream-bringers, such as the barber, who knows 'exactly' what the soul needs
