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  • THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE
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    Written & directed by:
    Gabrielle Baur

    Music:
    Beat Furrer

    Cast:
    Alfred Schedl

    Production:
    ONIX in Co-production
    with PARATE

    Still photography ONIX©

    MEDITATION NEAR-BY WAR

    «Abandon hope, you who enter the hell of pictures!”  Abel Gance in The Aesthetics of Disappearance of Paul Virilio, “War and Cinema”

    SYNOPSIS:
    In the film THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE by Gabrielle Baur we submerge in an endless row of succeeding tunnels and get removed of our feeling of real time and space. Inspired by the Brecht drama “The exception and the rule” the film visualizes, varies and dramatizes themes of a murderous race through the desert, in the radically reduced form of a journey through tunnels.

    THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE by Baur is a step towards an abstract way of film narration. Few metaphers are used, the image flow is concentrated to a minimum. The dramaturgic structure as well as the cineastic language are reduced to some basic elements.
    The dramaturgy is reflected in subtle changes of the image aesthetic. To obtain distinct grades of picture resolution the film was shot in different formats – from various video formats to 16mm – and processed with different digital- and transfertechnics.

    WORLD PREMIERE  at the art exposition “Zeitreisen” (“Timetravels”) 1993.
    Special Screenings, among others Pro Helvetia 2003

    CATALOG INFORMATION:

    Written & directed by : Gabrielle Baur
    Music : Beat Furrer
    Cast : Alfred Schedl
    Cinematography & Lighting : Wolfgang Thaler, Fabian, Eder, Hans X.Hagen,  Gabrielle Baur
    Sound : Peter Böhm
    Editing : Gabrielle Baur
    Cooperation : Kurt Maeder
    Release Cinema  :
    1992 (The original version was presented 1988 at the Theater Gruppe 80 /Wien)
    World premiere :
     In the framework of the art exposition “Zeitreisen” (“Timetravels”) 1993
    Length :
    28min.
    Reels : 
    1
    Format :
    16mm / 1:1.37,  color, magnetic soundtrack
    Production : ONIX Filmproduction in Co-production with PARATE
    Worldrights : ONIX Film, Postfach 751, Langstrasse 64, CH-8024 Zürich

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