Ati Maier

THE PLACELESS PLACE (2016)

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Hither the Space-Rider traverses silently through a deserted urban landscape, eventually arriving at Times Square in New York City. Surrounded by dense crowds of people and the flickering universe of images and video screens, the seemingly looping movement of the Space-Rider comes to a halt when she plants her flag on Times Square. Back on her horse, the Space-Rider has an encounter with a scene from the first Space-Rider film ” The Map is not the Territory” on one of the digital monitors. Through this loophole the figure returns to a deserted, pre-civilized environment. The Space-Rider re-contextualizes the capitalist iconography of Times Square and the contrast between humans and her evokes a disconcerting feeling of isolation. The feeling of being alien disappears with her return to the extraterrestrial environment of the first Space-Rider video and the disappearance of people from the scene.

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"The Placeless Place" 2016

The “Placeless Place " is scheduled to screen Fall / Winter 2017 program.

at Cheers Terrace in Brooklyn.

Address: 568 Metropolitan Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, 11211

"The Placeless Place" has been selected to be included in

has updated "The Placeless Place" 2016 to Finalist

The Placeless Place is featured in the official selection of the Lisbon International Filmfestival

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Credits

Performed and Directed
Ati Maier
Production
Klaus Knoesel, FilmKunstKommerz Munich
Credit
Belladonna Productions NYC Laura Weber, Hannah Wolfe
Director of Photography
Timo Seidel
Camera Operators
Patrick Saleh-Zaki, Klaus Knoesel
Postproduction and Special Effects:
Patrick Saleh-Zaki and Martin Mayntz
Composer
Andrew Wagstaff and Vostok
Spacehorse
"Sponge Bob"
Horse Wrangler
Michelle Nardini
Space Helmet Design
Bruce Busby
Helping Hands
Brian Chidester, Ernst Knoesel, Erika Nessier, Katharina Fecher, Miru Kim
Location
New York City
Special Thanks
Jochen Knoesel, Nicolette Brause, Silke Abbelen
Copyright
Ati Maier
Credit
www.atimaier.com