Moments visually represents memories of people that are close to Berner. The stories reflect on the feeling of being alone, establishing a dichotomy between the notion of isolation and solitude that underlie the feeling that the memories are based on. It is a project that talks about in-between events that take place when one least expects them, situations that are more felt that observed. Told without narration, Berner chronicles a simplicity without sentimentality that sometimes borders on the mundane, to reflect on moments that could none the less mark a life-altering process.

Narrative Statement:
The exhibited piece titled “Grandmother” is the first in a series of vignettes of similar narratives that will be created in an ongoing process, meaning that “MOMENTS” will eventually never leave it’s perpetual space of a ‘work-in-progress’.

In “Grandmother” we follow a ‘moment’ in the life of person X, consciously kept anonymous, to tie into the symbiotic concept of aligning the individual experience of isolation and/or solitude with a universal consciousness. The audience is following the abstract, surreal dream patterns of person X, who unknowingly is reliving the last moments of his grandmother’s life, who 2000 miles away is dying in her sleep in a nursing home.

Medium & Participants:
NTSC Stereo, Exhibition Video Projection from DVD, 3d elements created in Maya, compositing in AE / FCP, Sound Edit with Reaktor and Ableton Live
Length: 5 min 34 sec
Design & Concept: Andreas Berner
Character Animation: Eugen Sasu and Andreas Berner
Sound: Stewart Adriance
Special Thanks to Daniel Fries and Shahar Levavi.

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