"Westcoast" by Ulu Braun
30/04/2013.
[VIDEO] from Arte. [LA] USA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Westcosast is a 7-minute video directed, edited, photographed and written by Ulu Braun, mounted in 2009, was presented recently at the gallery YoungProjects in Los Angeles. 7 minutes that let you think. Braun is known for his painterly approach to video and film-based artworks and has shown at numerous film festivals and museums alike.
"Westcoast" by Ulu Braun.
Settled between film, video, collage and animation, an image detail pans a digitally mounted tableau that offers humans and animals space for their existence. From a bubbling primordial soup, eminiscent of Tarkovsky's Solaris, the panorama shot glides along the coast.
The central point is a seaport, built in the style of the late financial eclecticism and utilised by bizarre-seeming pachyderms, outlandish fluids and boat choreographies. The mystical journey ends in a rubbish Jacuzzi, located in a cave, near melancholic white women, looking around them.
Ulu Braun born in Schongau, Germany (1976) and based in Berlin, first studied Painting and Experimental film in Vienna and then Animation film at Babelsberg Film University in Potsdam, Germany. He then joined an influential street art collective in Berlin and spent much of his postgraduate years working in a wide array of mediums, including graffiti.
