Robert Seidel

Berlin-based artist Robert Seidel works in the fields of experimental film, installation, public art, image making, performance, sound, and curation.

futures

In futures, one sees crushed things, completely abstracted … finding each other and building up to something we have seen before. Like our true wishes and desires, they take shape over time and become clearer … followed by the next longing … innuendos … artefacts and rough synchronization add subtle emotions to an uncertain process, which seems to evince a Dark Romantic fatalism about all possible futures … hope and loss … and always a new beginning … for someone …

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»futures is hypnotic, textured, and beautiful. Robert Seidel reveals a hidden world in everyday objects. Deconstructed organic elements reverse in time, becoming what they once were. It suggests that in death there is a hidden beauty.«

→ SHIFT Japan + DOTMOV Festival 2006, selected + commented by Motion Theory

futures
Experimental Film, D 2006, 4:00 min
Film: Robert Seidel
Music: Zero 7 feat. José González
Full HD, color, 16:9

Record Company: Atlantic Records / Time Warner
Video Commissioner: Gunther Walker / Solar Management

Awards
Best Film Award, Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach, Florida, USA, 2008

The 100 Most Outstanding German Short Films, AG Kurzfilm Catalogue, Germany, 2008

1st place backup.clipaward, Backup Festival, Weimar, Germany, 2007

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people part I

Experimental Film, D 2019, 3:47 min
Film: Robert Seidel
Music: Abogar
Full HD, b/w, 16:9

husby-klit bk.

Experimental Film, D 2017, 5:00 min
Film: Robert Seidel
Music: Esmark
Full HD, b/w, 16:9