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  Astrid Heibach
Stille Katastrophe
  Germany 1986
Videotape, 4:17, colour
The world behind the television screen is fascinating and inspires day-dreams. What would it be like to look from that world into ours? A filmed reproduction of Goya's 'Maja' appears on the screen and seems to come to life. She sets in motion a series of associative images, continually changes role and character, toys with the fantasies of the viewer and tries (seduction - a characteristic feature of video and film) to entice the viewer into her world. It remains a purely visual seduction: the gulf between her world and ours remains unbridgeable. The screen is merely glass, the electronically evoked images remain in her universe, and we in ours.

Martin Helm

Camera and lights: Gusztáv Hámos, Camera and editing: Astrid Heibach, Music: Thomas Wydler, Production: Astrid en Edmund Heibach, With: Gusztáv Hámos, Astrid Heibach