The film is an analogy for the individuals in the current society: searching for something, the expectation of an event.
Just watch the movement, the details: fashion, hair, rings, piercings… Germany 10 years after the wall came down; the location, where people walk today used to be part of the former "Todesstreifen" (death stripe), an narrow piece of land between East and West Berlin. For fourty years this area was only accessible to armed border patrols, who would shoot anybody trying to pass, now people walk there everyday on their way from one place to another. the sound in the film is a minimal structure, floating wavering tones, somehow indifferent, unfocused, but it suggests a wide area of open space. The sound builds up from time to time into overmodulation and feedback, just to fall back again into indiffrent noise. There are also fragments of police radio samples. These samples were put through a virtual-analog synthesthizer, using different vocoders, to break up the constant flow of noise and unsettle the tranquility of the scene.
"untitled" (berlin 1999) – short version
directed and edited by Marek Brandt
Video/ 7 min Digital Video
Sound/ by Brandt aka tri Phaze (privatelektro)
Berlin, Leipzig, Dundee 1999/2001