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Friederike Anders «Mutabor III (from: Friederike Anders/Ilka Lauchstädt/Martin Potthoff/Mari Cantu Videolabyrinth')» | Mutabor III (from: Friederike Anders/Ilka Lauchstädt/Martin Potthoff/ Mari Cantu 'Videolabyrinth')
Friederike Anders, «Mutabor III (from: Friederike Anders/Ilka Lauchstädt/Martin Potthoff/Mari Cantu Videolabyrinth')», 1988
Mutabor III (from: Friederike Anders/Ilka Lauchstädt/Martin Potthoff/ Mari Cantu 'Videolabyrinth') | © Friederike Anders
The game 'Mutabor III' is a soap opera with 7 chapters; it plays in 1988's immediate future: the year 1991 in Moldavia, a fully air-conditioned, American TV dream colony complete with beach or slum backdrop and a shopping mall. The main characters are Mrs. Joy Such and Dr. Victor Principal, a charismatic plastic surgeon. It depends on the player whether, during plastic surgery, Mrs. Such loses her face, gains a new one, or is sent on the path of complete de-individualization in the 'time tunnel'. Associations with Max Ernst's 'Femme 100 Têtes' are conjured up. A printout of the score ends the game.


 
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Categories: Video

Keywords: Interaction | Narration

Works by Friederike Anders:

The Memory of the Woman in White| The Color Brown


 

 Friederike Anders
«Mutabor III (from: Friederike Anders/Ilka Lauchstädt/Martin Potthoff/Mari Cantu Videolabyrinth')»

Video puzzle pieces float on flow diagrams. User variables, mouse clicks, keyboard entries: the neo-cubist story appears! In the 'Videolabyrinth', the viewer is confronted with responding tales that take the path he decides.
Each game consists of a catalogue of video sequences on a Video-8 cassette, controlled by a computer program. The entire length of the video material in a game varies between 30 and 60 minutes.

 

Friederike Anders