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