2020 Zur Wohnungsfrage: Eine Odyssee
- DE: Zur Wohnungsfrage: Eine Odyssee
- EN: The Housing Question: An Odyssey
Summary
The Housing Question: An Odyssey is a documentary video installation about contemporary urban living, the right to housing and the hidden financial entaglements of the urban housing market. The project deals with the privatization of our cities and the resulting gentrification processes, that more and more divide cities along monetary fault lines and class differences.
Viewers go on a journey with the artist, starting from a house in Basel, the tenants of which had to move out to make room for redevelopment, to discover the financial entanglements of the owners of the house which lead to a refugee camp in Burkina Faso where Doctors without Borders is helping internally displaced persons.
The work encourages viewers to think about their own living situation and introduces tools for research and resistance to affected persons. It does not only point to the concrete hardships of our current housing market, gentrification and the microphysics of power that prevail between landlords, tenants and real estate investors. It also reflects on the philosophical question of what dwelling is for us today and how we can think anew our relationship to the spaces we inhabit.
Direction
Production
Hochschule Luzern Design und Kunst
Master Film
Stills
Credits
- A work by: Jürgen Buchinger
- Starring: Gaby Messmer , Melanie Müller , Jürgen Buchinger
- Cinematography: Simon de Diesbach , Jürgen Buchinger
- Additional footage: Melanie Müller
- Sound: Simon de Diesbach , Jürgen Buchinger
- Music: Excerpts from “Odysseus” op. 41 by Max Bruch , NDR Radio Choir, Budapest Radio Choir, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover, Leon Botstein ; Jeffrey Kneebone , Nancy Maultsby , Stephanie Lange
- Soundmix: Thomas Gassmann
- Editing: Jürgen Buchinger
- Mentoring: Robert Müller , Marine Huggonier
- English Language Supervision: Carly Gertler, Nicholas Kazmierski
- With quotes taken from: Theodor Adorno, Asyl für Obdachlose, 1944; Wilhelm Graff, Odysseus: Scenes from the Odyssey, 1872 ; Martin Heidegger, Bauen Wohnen Denken, 1952 ; Ernst Hubeli, Die neue Krise der Städte, 2020; Tammy Kim, Moms 4 Housing: Redefining the Right to a Home in Oakland, 2020
- Promotion: Chantal Molleur
- Monetary Support: Erziehungsdepartement Basel-Stadt, Amt für Ausbildungsbeiträge, Elvis Musal
- Acknowledgements: Inga Federe, Armin Biehler, Carlos Isabel Garcia, Christina Zimmermann , Stefanie Reisinger, wohnen&mehr: Susanne Kozlowski , Claudia Bauersachs; Recht auf Stadt Basel, Simon de Diesbach, Jochen Ehmann, Antoine Friang, Iris Ganz, Pablo Garrido Arnaiz, Thomas Gassmann, Carly Gertler, Marine Hugonnier, Nicholas Kazmiersky, Gaby Messmer, Chantal Molleur, Melanie Müller, Robert Müller, Urs & Christel Raussmüller, Ruth Stofer, Fred Truniger, Daniel Tschuppert
- Production: HSLU Design & Kunst / MA Film
Technical requirements
3 27“-HD-monitors including headphones, cables and mediaplayers 7 short distance projectors, HD, throw ratio ≤ 0.5, including cables and synchronizable mediaplayers A room according to the specifications in the documentation, measuring approx. 765 cm diameter and a height of approx. 250 cm There is the possibility to adapt the installation to the circumstances on location in coordination with the artist.
