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"Tatort Migration 1-10" Gustav Deutsch The television series “Tatort” (“Scene of the Crime”) was a permanent feature of German television culture in the 1970’s. The experimental filmmaker, video and action artist Gustav Deutsch takes into account the series’ ambitions to be realistic, topical, situated and socially relevant. He reviewed roughly one hundred episodes of “Tatort” examining the aspect of when and how the theme of “migration” comes up. Whereas there were only eleven episodes in the seventies in which migration was a theme, it was more conspicuous by the mid-nineties. From 2000 to 2004 the filmmaker counted thirty-one episodes, in which migration was treated. Gustav Deutsch has arranged his own 8–10-minute short episodes of “Tatort” from numerous sequences. They are small unis, which are shown in home cinema boxes and hence in a television-like situation. For his “Tatort” episodes, Deutsch was guided less by the logic of the dialogues, shooting locations and subject matter than by the intensity of the images, following methods of associative montage. He has produced thematic episodes dealing with: the “dialogue of generations” – between the first and the second immigrant generations – ; the “power of language” – its significance for integration or as a space of escape - ; “signs and wonders” – customs and rituals that seem foreign; and others. He integrates auxiliary scenes and locations that have a more subliminal influence on the image of migration in “Tatort”. The installation takes the viewers back to their private gaze: visitors follow the maze-like installation from the public sphere of the exhibition space, through the semipublic sphere of the corridors, to finally arrive at the ten cinema boxes; yet one remains in the public sphere. This is a duplication of our own gaze: a private visual habit is staged here as the voyeuristic (superior) gaze that can be easily hidden at home. Filmmaker, born 1952, lives and works in Vienna. |
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