Jessica Hausner
TEPPICHSCHONER
Animation, 3 min
Prod.: coop99, 2002

Concept Jessica Hausner, Antonin Svoboda
Animation Elke Berghammer


The pattern of a 16th-century carpet turns into a computer game: a pattern in its colorful and mantric appearance is placed in a contemporary context. Patterns are unstable, virtual; eveything builds up and disappears again at regulated intervals. The cultural struggle, the strive for ressources between the East and the West is animated in an archaic hunting-and-catching computer game. Figures in the game eat up the carpet pattern in the course of the three-minute sequence, other figures blow up the destroyers (plus themselves). At the end, there is nothing left. Then it starts all over again. A screen saver.


[Kurdistan Carpet with Floral Pattern]