Content from ZANK

This video features no words, only music and images. Ema Kugler describes the moving images as: “They are like a dark, surrealist dance of everyman with his own death. I have seen all these images. They came from the darkness of my subconsciousness, colonized me and obsessed me.” The video shows images, which together with the accompanying music give an impression of the infinite and the divine and being sucked into an abyss from where there is no return. The images bring us to the edge of our existence and twist us in the darkness of the subconscious and inevitable oblivion. There are no words or speech in the video, only music and images but the storyline is clear nevertheless. The images are silent witnesses to our imprisonment in the world of automatism – bureaucracy and authority – god and ruler who lead us into pointless wars, killing and death. Individuals are helpless prisoners of these forces.

When you live under the same roof, a family-life bond inevitably develops. That is certainly the case for the inhabitants of Zhan Ke Zhi Jia, a hostel. Xie Ke Zhan, a graduate student who owns the hostel, cares about all of his friends who live there and tries to be attentive to their needs, even to the point of suffocation.