HD 3 min, © Harald Hund 2013

 

A study in illusion and fear. Walking through a forest a man encounters an enigmatic figure which appears as a fig-

ment of his imagination. In the end, the man himself might be an illusion.

 

 

HD and 35 mm film, 12 min, © Harald Hund 2005

 

A retro-futuristic film that builds on the contents of Science fiction films, but deviates from the genre in that it does

not deliver a design for the future. Taking the Sci-Fi genre ad absurdum, existing elements (e.g. modernist architec-

ture of the more recent past) were used with which to construct a Utopian-looking city. As in all found footage films,

All People is Plastic is based exclusively on existing material and the product of research. In contrast to narrative film,

identification with a protagonist is rendered impossible by people who all look the same and behave identically.

The film uses content and aesthetic means to address the impossibility of Utopias.

 

 

DV PAL 3min, © Harald Hund 2000

Urlaub (Holidays) dates back to the year 2000, when the far-right FPO party managed to enter into a coalition go-

vernment with the Conservatives in Austria. The FPO’s election campaign was marked by a racist and xenophobic

discourseand a particular hostility against Eastern European countries who wished to join the EU.

The skeleton in the film is a symbol for nationalism, a dead concept in the eyes of the author. The UFOs emanating

froma Bulgarian monument (for Soviet cosmonauts) stand for Eastern European immigrants invading Austria.

In the video the negative stereotyping of aliens (always bad, ugly, destructive and illegally intruding) is ironically

confirmed. The destruction of heritage buildings stands for the exaggerated fears of the nationalist that ‚evil‘ immi-

grants will invariablyundermine a country’s culture, ultimately changing it for the worse.