Rick Niebe [it] - Private Eye I, 2:00, 2007

Bogey involved in a beckettian shadowing ( a strange case )
In this work I deconstruct and re-assemble a sequence of the classical Hollywood cinema (Hawks's "The Big Sleep") into an humorous and obsessive repetition playing these images (just like Bogart's action) against themselves.
Through digital technologies I remix a cultural pattern in order to enact a critique of collective imaginary of cinema.
To reassemble fragments of cinematic history is a game with and the huge databases available; somehow it's a sort of act of resistence to the overwealminig stream of images in which we live.
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Rick Niebe - visual artist
Deegree in semiotic of Cinema at Pisa University, his research as videoartist is based on a minimal and epigrammatic experimetal re-use of audio visual found materials.

In the last years he directed:
"Totem-Tanz" (2002); "Simsons Youth" (2003); "Zoo" (2004); "Monitor" (2005); "Empire" (2005); "Target" (2005); "Teresa" (2006); "Ekstasis" (2007); "Private Eye / I" (2007)