A ROSEMARY PRAYER is an ongoing speculative-memory narrative. It tells the oral history of the disappearance of a person and its repercussions.
It will be released through cinematic fragments, suspected to be part of a coherent narrative megastructure.

FRAGMENTS

NARRATIVE FRAGMENTS (A; B)

2-channel composite (1‘41‘‘, 2015/2017)
2 ⋅ 2.00:1 ashpherical widescreen, stereophonic sound

Featuring MAX VIKTOR, BIANCA KENNEDY and AN LAPHAN

Directed by AN LAPHAN
Cinematography by AN LAPHAN and VICTOR VAN WETTEN
Visual Effects by VICTOR VAN WETTEN
Sound Design by SEBASTIAN SCHÖNFELD (OWL YEAH)
Set Sound by CARINA OBRECHT

© 2017 AN LAPHAN

1-channel video (1’00” each, 2016)
1,66:1 aspherical widescreen, stereophonic sound

COMPILATION OF THE FIRST AND SECOND CYCLE (c1, c2) (6’24”)

STATE (2016/2017) from An Laphan on Vimeo.

STATE is an ongoing interdisciplinary series of one-minute long audiovisual miniatures. It deals with descriptions of liminal conditions; absurd snapshots of an in-between condition, that can be deciphered as transgressions in the private, the interpersonal and the social.

The ongoing series will be annually released in cycles (of three miniatures each).

In collaboration with SEBASTIAN SCHÖNFELD.

FIRST CYCLE (c1)

1-channel video (1’00” each, 2016)
1,66:1 aspherical widescreen, stereophonic sound

COMPILATION OF THE FIRST CYCLE (c1) (3’18”)

SECOND CYCLE (C2)

1-channel video (1’00” each, 2017)
1,66:1 aspherical widescreen, stereophonic sound

COMPILATION OF THE SECOND CYCLE (c2) (3’18”)

IN EXHIBITION

The first cycle of STATE has been shown in the group exhibition PROVOKATEURE (Anne Pfeifer, Lucy König, Marie Lynn Speckert, Nicola Alessandrini, Nils Franke, Peter Untermaierhofer, Simone Häckel, Simone Zewnik, Valentina Murabito) at Galerie Størpunkt Jan 14 – Feb 19 2016.

The first and second cycle of STATE has been shown in the group exhibition KOPFKINO (Wolf-Roberto Schimpf, Nils Blau, Cigdem Aky, Julia Emslander, Eva-Marlene Etzel, Lea Grebe, Dana Greiner, Katharina Lehmann, Analía Martínez, Patrick Ostrowsky, Lena Policzka, Julian Rabus mit SUPER REALITY & Florian Tenk) at Dachauer Wasserturm, Apr 28 – May 7 2017.

© 2016/2017 AN LAPHAN/SEBASTIAN SCHÖNFELD

2-channel video installation (1’00” loop, 2017)
2·1.78:1 aspeherical widescreen, quadrophonic sound

SEMBLANCE (2017) from An Laphan on Vimeo.

The 2-channel video installation SEMBLANCE deals with questions deriving from the beaudrillardian terms of HYPERREALISM and the SIMULACRUM. It centers around the question of how to dissimulate an image without an obvious original.
The objects seen in moving-image are 3D-scanned representations of sculptural works of the artist. The sculptures themselves are created with imagery associated with moving-image (film, animation, video art, etc.) in mind. Thus, the established medial feedback loop further blurs the line of what is and what is not the origin of the image.

Video by AN LAPHAN
Soundscape by OWL YEAH

IN EXHIBITION

SEMBLANCE was shown as part of the group exhibition ANCESTOR SIMULATION (with D.A.Y., Iason Konstantinou, Janina Totzauer, Jonas Mayer, Lia Melissa Wehrs, Patrick Tircher, Vanessa Ivan, Violetta Abate, curated by Mehmet Dayi) at Kunstarkaden, Munich, Jan 24 – Feb 18 2017.

1-channel film installation (21‘20‘‘, 2016)
2.00:1 aspherical widescreen, stereophonic sound

SYNOPSIS

A wife waits for her dead husband.

An adaption of three japanese poems in three different translations.
An examination of waiting and the slowness of time.
An exercise in slow cinema.

Starring FRANZISKA GUROWIETZ

Director, Producer, Cinematograher, Screenplay, Editor AN LAPHAN
Sound Design, Sound Mixer, Sound Editor OWL YEAH
Assistant Director and Sound Recordist RICHIE WILDE
Based upon poems by KAKINOMOTO NO HITOMARO and YOSAMI NO OTOME

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released DEC-01-2016

TEASERS

IN EXHIBITION

ISHI has been presented as part of the KINO DER KUNST programme (with Noa Gur and Dionis Escorsa) at Nir Altman Galerie, Apr 18 – Apr 23 2017.

© 2016 AN LAPHAN