A short film following the encounter of two outcasts in an abandoned office building on the periphery of Neubrandenburg, Germany.
In the suburbs of Neubrandenburg, two characters, a shy but curious non-binary and his male counterpart suffering from Tourette-Syndrome, venture into an emotional journey through an abandoned house. In dialogue with the architecture a playful game between affection and almost uncontrollable violence begins — unfolding their strange and yet familiar encounter to the voyeuristic viewer.
Team
Elias Kurth
Concept/Script/Performance, Editing
Anne-Sophie Goetz
Concept/Script/Camera
Florian Gick
Performance
Hannes Hehemann
Camera/Sound
Leon Steffani
Sound-Design**
Seventeen minutes
Length
Prof. Ranner, UdK Berlin
Support
2017
Year
‣ December 19
The Infinite Gesture (Premiere)
Performance by Ixchel Mendoza Hernández
December 19, 19H, Radialsystem Berlin
Performances 20 / 21 / 22 December, 19H
Elias Kurth (b. 1984 in Aarau, Switzerland) is an artist, choreographer, performer and architect based in Marseille and Aarau. Working across these disciplines, Elias Kurth explores the tensions between fictional and factual spaces, between individual fantasies and societal realities.
The projects vary in scale, duration and media, and always draw from the human body as a source of knowledge. Using movement as a thinking tool, Kurth develops intersections between performance, architecture and visual arts. His curiosity for the yet unknown and a strong sense for spaces and emotions create situational poignant experiences. The work, ranging from sensitive gestures to brute physical acts, reveals his playful reading of internal and external realities and their conflicts.
Elias Kurth graduated from London Contemporary Dance School ‘The Place’ (2009) and worked with several choreographers such as Lea Anderson, Requardt&Rosenberg or Compagnie Shifts. He graduated as an architect from the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin (2018) where he studied amongst others with Jean-Philippe Vassal, Enrique Sobejano, and Alexandra Ranner. He has worked as an architect for Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and Compagnie KHZ. His own work has been shown in the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany and Switzerland.
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