Carsten Nicolai
Exhibition “Techno Worlds”
future past perfect pt. 03 (u_08-1)
2009hd short movie on blu ray disc
03:43 min
conceived as the third part of the series under the name future past perfect, the short film introduces a narrative story that was inspired by a fascination for automation processes as well as on codes and grids that materialized in the record alva noto . unitxt in 2008. the series itself started in 2006 and is designed as a row of conceptually independent movies that document nicolai’s focus of interest of the respective year of origin and also builds up on the results of the movie(s) before.
a quiet autumn night in tokyo. a man stops his car at a shop front with a number of vending machines to get a last drink of tea on his way home. he inserts a coin, but instead of the usual procedure, the machine starts performing its own peculiar performance...
actor: kyusaku shimada
sound: alva noto
voice: anne-james chaton
director: carsten nicolai
2nd director: simon mayer
music: alva noto . unitxt u_08-1, taken from alva noto . unitxt (raster-noton 2008)
Courtesy by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and Pace Gallery
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn