Brigitte & Jonathan Meese: Mother and Son = Reality Meets Art (F.U.T.U.R.E. of Infinity) | Digital productions ARTE

Brigitte & Jonathan Meese: Mother and Son = Reality Meets Art (F.U.T.U.R.E. of Infinity)

What is the essence of art? How does it arise, where does it emerge from, in which ways does it express and display itself? Generally, the act of artistic creation is a secluded and intimate procedure. The first virtual reality production by Jonathan Meese and his mother Brigitte is a journey into the heart of the dictatorship of art, where spectators are able to closely witness the artist’s inspiration and working process.

In the artist’s virtual studio, the spectators experience in 3D the creation of a 360-degree “Gesamtkunstwerk” of the future: The sleeping artist is visited by wonderful, inspiring dreams. His mother enters, brings him coffee and urges him to paint. Another Mother Meese comes in, and another, and another… and the artist paints in a frenzy of creation, because “art is just to get started, and…

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    Technical Info & Short Credits

    Format
    VR/360°/AR
    Genre
    Documentary
    Duration
    9 min
    Technique
    Live action
    Direction
    René Päpke, Robin von Hardenberg
    Concept/Idea
    Jonathan Meese
    Dramaturgy
    Henning Nass
    Production
    KOBALT Kreation, Berliner Festspiele/Immersion, ZDF/ARTE
    Photography Direction
    Philipp Wenning
    Sound
    Sven Mühlender
    Music
    Bernhard Lang