Description
Russian premiere
The moral self-assurance of fairy tales is lost in the depths of the dark forest haunted by Manuel Knapp with his projection and recording equipment. He casts filigree white light, the strange calligraphic signals of a digital abstraction, into the existential darkness of a wintry forest landscape under a new moon; and by flashing a kind of writing on branches and tree trunks, he creates a cryptic choreography, a game of concealing and revealing.
– Stefan Grissemann
About the director
Manuel Knapp
Artist, musician, and filmmaker. Born in 1978. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2002) and computer music and electroacoustic media at the Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2005). In 2007, he won the Diagonale prize for Best Experimental Film; in 2008 he made the festival’s trailer. He has won accolades at, and taken part in, numerous film festivals, including Ann Arbor, Lausanne, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Osnabrück, Leeds, the Viennale, Mexico City, and Gothenburg. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in leading art spaces in Austria and Czechia. In Russia, Manuel Knapp’s work has been shown in a group exhibition in Murmansk.