Big Square on the left is an LED wall. 768 x 768 pixels.
After reading the text the first thig i htought about doing was to work on the Bios. The bio appear in the the text liek an intervention. they break out of the flow of the dialogue. They aren't happening in a specific time. At least not at the same time.
They short about 90 - 120 seconds. A perfect length for a video intervention.
,h3> And i had a desire to work more with AI.
I examined german photographers from before WW2.
Came across this August Sander portrait.
And this self portrait by modernist from the thirties that I never heard of Ilsa Bing (She was known as queen of the Leica. The portrait is from 1931
Portrait of a young girl by August Sander
Ilse Bing's self portrait.
I took these images as my base
with ComfyUi using the z-image model. I made these. And fifty more.
then a little Ilse Bing
Then another German photographer Edmund Kesting --This is his "Portrait with Shadows" from 1930
Portrait with Shadows
AI could do this to.
However I knew as I was doing this that all these images were going in the wrong direction.
Somehow all of this becomes illustration. My plan was to have one of these woman speaking.
My plan was to have one of these woman speaking the first Bio text.
Ich, Maria Erika Weinart, wurde am 4. Juli 1925 in Marburg an der Lahn geboren.....
But we don't want ot do a documentary and I don't want the video to tell people how Maria looked. Or to simply just give off an old time feeling
I thoguht somehow by doing a hundred images I could escape the problem.
Not "the" Maria Erika Weinart", but al the possible Marias. the whole "Phase Space" of Marias... In fact I should cut in modren day images too
Even though I knew i was heading down the wrong track I went further.
Maria played Snow White in school
"Eines Tages durfte ich in der Schule das Schneewittchen spiele, trotz meiner blonden Haare. Das Gefühle, alsi ich vor den vielen Menschen auf der Bühne unserer Aula stand, konnte ich nicht vergessen."
I was a bit ipressed by this constant falling.
I tried exploding the office girls.
Two more clips -- one copying another image idea of Edmund Kesting - a woman with a hand in front of her face.
This creates such a wierd character. You would never direct a real person this way. An actress wouldn't improvise like this.
And finally Ilse Bing and her camera -- here I went away formt he Bio text and tried out the narrator voice.
Added some shots of the subway in Köln. This came from another conversation with Sebastian. More on tha later.
