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GB 1986, 15 min., colour, Stereo, Low-Band U-Matic
Music by Paul McWhinnie
A young girl's journey through a house, where she witnesses images of violence, greed, love, religion, misery and rebirth.
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GB 1988, 12 min., colour, mono, Betacam SP & 1"
A video by Akiko Hada & The Japanese Toy Theatre of London (Kazuko Hohki, Andrew Brenner, David Toop)
Agent 0016 (played by a wind-up pear) is murdered by being painted matt black. Our hero 0017 James Bonk (a plastic Godzilla) is assigned on the case... A hilarious parody of the famous spy thriller.
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GB 1988, 4 min., colour, stereo, Super-8 & 1"
A video by Akiko Hada & Holger Hiller
Music: Karl Bonnie, Holger Hiller, Akiko Hada
A piece of audio-visual music, in which the images and the music were "composed" simultaneously. What you hear is what you see.
GB 1989, 6 min., colour, mono, Betacam SP
Script: Andrew Brenner Music: Steve Beresford
A complete history of modern art in 5 minutes of Spanglish, including a lesson in forging Van Goghs from the late British forger, Tom Keating.
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GB/D 1991, 20 min., colour, stereo, Betacam SP
Script: Wolfgang Müller
Music: Lester Square & Helen McCookerybook
A video opera with improvised singing accompanied by some unusual instruments. The loose narrative centres around the Queen, whose personal joys and emotions, and those of her subjects, are woven into a unique collage of sound and imagery.
D 1992, 22 min., colour, mono, Hi-8, Super-8 & Hi-Band SP
(German Version "Der Sprung (oder: Kein Sprung)" : 30 min.)
Difficulties of dealing with my sexuality and coming to terms with being a grown up woman. The confusion, fear and desperation are shown here as my inability to jump into the deep water of the unknown.
D 1993, 21 min., colour, mono, VHS, S-VHS & Hi-BandSP
With original footage by: Wieland Speck, Bo Karsten, V2, Elfe, Antje Schäfer, Bernhard Steudel & Gundula Schmitz, etc.
Historic footage of the concerts by the Berlin art & music group DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS, newly treated and compiled. The post production and subtle effects added to each segment enhance and compliment the character and mood of the piece.
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D/Island 1994, 3 Min., colour, mono, Betacam SP
A video by Akiko Hada & Wolfgang Müller
Script: Wolfgang Müller
Actresses: Kristbjörg Kjeld, Jóna Gudrún Jónsdóttir
Camera: Vídir Sigurdsson
Online: Hanna Klinger
A little "still life" set in downtown Reykjavík. In a specialist shop for eider down and bird preparations, a customer (played by Kristbjörg Kjeld, the Grande Dame of the Icelandic National Theatre) tries to buy a stuffed blue tit. The task, however, turns out to be impossible to carry out...
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D 1991, 16 Min., 56 Sek., colour, stereo, U-Matic HB / Hi-8 / Super-8
Dir: Akiko Hada
Camera: Frank Kunkel, Christine Wiegand, Akiko Hada
Online: Akiko Hada, Christiane Wiegand
Production: Freunde guter Musik Berlin e.V.
A site-specific music performance video with the Berlin group The Thirteenth Tribe, filmed in and around the Lindentunnel in East Berlin, which was built in 1914-15 and had been unused since 1951. The video shows 4 difference moods and faces of the tunnel. Commissioned by the Intermedienschauplatz Lindentunnel.
VIDEO INSTALLATIONS & OTHER WORK
(Rabbits don't have a month)
D 1994, 2 Monitors, Video Collage Prints, Silkscreen
Galerie Zwinger, Berlin
(A 1-Monitor version with a show-window installation was shown in the women's group show 16 Rippen (16 Ribs) (Gay Museum, Berlin, 1997) and at the Projektgalerie Musterwohnung (Zürich, 2000).
D 1994, 5 Monitors
Production: Medienhaus für Kunst und Kultur, Hannover
Reykjavík 1995, art action
With Wolfgang Müller & Karola Schlegelmilch
On 17 June, 1995, Christo began his wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin. At the same time, 2,380km away from this event, 3 Berlin artists wrapped a bronze statue of Berlin Bear in the town centre of Reykjavík.
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