In "Lover's Walk" a young man wearing a cowboy hat (Oliver Hangl alias Daniel rose) plays a guitar. Standing in the middle of a park. A young woman emerges unexpectedly (?): she flies, hops, and dances like a small bird to its own music.
The camera places her more in the air than on the ground. The young gentleman, overwhelmed by such merry enthusiasm, plays an identical guitar-solo, and finally flies together with the girl.

"Lover's Walk" tries to bring the feelings of sudden love to cellulose and shows, in addition to a typical constellation, a desired human ideal: I want to learn to fly with you or teach me to fly. A latent expectation is fulfilled by coincidental love. Oliver Hangl makes use of, as in many of its films and performances, the fictitious figure Daniel Rose and together with Andrea Gergely merges elements of theater and movies in Lover's Walk, to create fantasy filled cliches. Lover's Walk is one of altogether 18 contributions of the video sampler "sincerely yours", video art in Austria, arranged by Birgit Mollik. (Suess)

Exhibitions

sincerely yours, 1998

Sofia Municipal Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria

Videopräsentation: Lover's Walk, 1998

Diagonale, Graz (ST), Austria

Specifications

3min mono color PAL

Technical protocol

16 mm, S8 Blowup ( recording); Super8 (editing); Film16mm (master), Submaster Betacam SP

Produced together with

directors: Oliver Hangl & Andrea Gergely
actors: Oliver Hangl & Andrea Gergely
camera: Sten Sturefelt
musik: Buffi Zykan

Production

Mackó Produktions

Edition

Austrian Filmmakers Coop

Copyright

Oliver Hangl/Andrea Gergely

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