ReCoder of Life

Director: Stefan Römer    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: From 1986 to 1991, Stefan Römer studied art history, ethnology and comparative religious studies at the universities of Bonn, Cologne and Berlin. In 2003 he became professor for new media at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Stefan Römer's art and writing are devoted to de-conceptual art, criticism of space, relationship between image and text in art and new media, as well as intercultural aspects. He makes videos/film, photography, installations, painting and performaces.

Country: Germany

Year: 2019

Synopsis: »Stefan Römer’s film ReCoder is as dark as Dark Deleuze.« Jayson Jimenez, Philosopher, Manila RECODER OF LIFE is an experimental film on the question: What does life mean in a digitized world? And: How could a re-coding of our digital system operate? In an imaginary megacity – poverty in the streets, against the backdrop of Manila’s brutalist architecture and Singapores’s urban high-tech architecture park – the protagonist »Reco« researches the contemporary code. Reco is: various female actresses. They re-write the code. RECODER OF LIFE delivers hypnotic images laced with electronic sounds. From the specific combination of lyrical and theoretical texts results an analytical poetics. Like other films by Stefan Roemer »ReCoder« is document, essay, pamphlet and fiction at the same time – images and sounds crisscrossed by texts. With references to the German underground classic »Decoder« (1983). Produced with support of the/ Gedreht mit dem Research Grant »Acts of Life« in Manila and/ und Singapur 2018. »Critical Research Residency«, Goethe Institute Manila and/ und Singapore, MCAD Manila and/ und NTU CCA Singapore

Language: English