La Luna

Eric Hattan's "La Luna" shows the moon in the Valais Alps surrounded by clouds. The film makes recourse to two of its unique medial features: movement and light. The veil of clouds which apparently float across before and behind the luminous body, play with the movement and equally with the relationship between foreground and background. They themselves become first visible through the glow of the moon. This becomes the main light source and refers to the necessity of light for the visibility in films. This recourse becomes all the more distinct, in that with this moon Hatten lines himself up with a historical film sequence which stretches from "Le voyage dans la lune" by Georges Méliès in 1902 and leads through Luis Buñuels "Un Chien Andalou" from 1928 to the Messeplatz in Basel in the year 2014, where "La Luna" is further actualised.

Emanuel Welinder     (translation: Christopher Haley Simpson)

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--- Präsentationshinweise  DE:

Der Videoparcour fand vom 28.05 bis zum 29.06. 2014  zwischen 9 bis 24 Uhr statt. Nach erfolgreicher Pilotphase  2013 mit Videokünstler*innen  aus Basel werden dieses Jahr Videokünster*innen aus der ganzen Schweiz in Schaufenstern,  Lobbys und Eingangshallen von  Geschäften  und Kulturinstitutionen in der Basler Innenstadt gezeigt.  Die Videos wurden so ausgewählt, dass Bezüge zum Standort hergestellt werden: Inhaltlich kommentieren sie diesen und stellen visuelle Verbindungen her zur Umgebung.    

Es gab 11 Stadtionen:  Congress Center Basel, Banca Popolare di Sondrio (Suisse), Bank CIC, unternehmen mitte, Der Teufelhof Basel, Confiserie Bachmann, Sony Center, Pfauen Basel, Theater Basel, Basler Kantonalbank, Ingenodata/Güterstrasse 133.

Folgende Künstler*innen nahmen am Videoparcour teil: collectif_fact, Ursula Palla, Beat Steuli, Eric Hattan, Anina Schenker, Chantal Romani, Ingeborg Lüscher, Alex Silber Company, Pipilotti Rist, Gabriella Gerosa, Daniel Künzler, Roman Menge, Peter Aerschmann, Haus am Gern, Sonja Feldmeier, Judith  Albert.


--- Presentation notes EN:

The video parcour took place from 28.05 to 29.06. 2014 between 9 and 24 o'clock. After a successful pilot phase in 2013 with video artists* from Basel, this year video artists* from all over Switzerland will be shown in shop windows, lobbies and entrance halls of shops and cultural institutions in Basel city centre.  The videos have been selected in such a way that references to the location are established: They comment on the content and create visual links to the surroundings.   
 
There were 11 stations:  Congress Center Basel, Banca Popolare di Sondrio (Suisse), Bank CIC, unternehmen mitte, Der Teufelhof Basel, Confiserie Bachmann, Sony Center, Pfauen Basel, Theater Basel, Basler Kantonalbank, Ingenodata/Güterstrasse 133.

The following artists took part in the video parcour: collectif_fact, Ursula Palla, Beat Steuli, Eric Hattan, Anina Schenker, Chantal Romani, Ingeborg Lüscher, Alex Silber Company, Pipilotti Rist, Gabriella Gerosa, Daniel Künzler, Roman Menge, Peter Aerschmann, Haus am Gern, Sonja Feldmeier, Judith Albert.