David Hardy artist in dialog WS 00/01

project at uni-w/h
David Hardy konstruiert die Kunst- und Wunderkammer eines Normaden inmitten der westlichen Zivilisation. Aus Sperrmüll, Fundgegenständen, Malereien, Zeichnungen und zusammengeschusterten Objekten baut er den Kosmos eines Freibeuters, Tausendsassers, Erfinders, Chlochards und Flaneurs.

Gemeinsam mit dem Pariser Filmemacher Victor-Victor und der aus Japan stammenden Fotografin Micki Nitadori bot er im WS 00/01 das Seminar »How to Make a Movie with Ten Deutschmark?« an:

The fact is not to learn how to spare money. The 10 DM movie production is the result of an experience: when you try to make a film with a few friends by your own, you meet them in a café before filming, and spend approximatively 10 DM to offer them a coffee, some cigarettes and a few croissants. After that ceremony, you and your crew are ready to go on working. The collective feeling is born thanks to the breakfast. Now you have understood the essential point of our work: the film-making has to be a really collective work during a convivial time. And the project which interest you is a development of that experience. We don't want to work as we do in Paris. Here, the collective creation will begin from the script to the cutting-room, thanks to that concept: the Cadavre exquis, a classical method from Dadaism and the Surréalistes. The most important thing would be to share a strong complicity in the group. To write the cadavre exquis can be done in five minutes, but every one will have to put in the text something of his own, knowing that the other ones have also written something they has not read. Maybe we will have to rewrite and script, looking for the harmony of the different personalities. We will have to adapt the text, from literature to pictures and sounds, and to prepare the film-making: actors, locations, props... After the shooting, the editing, here we are, the film is made! We went through four different steps to make it, four day by month during four months. The technical part of making a film will not be really approached: our preoccupation is much about the collective creation on writing and filming, about what is between these two activities, about how you can manipulate the pictures and the sounds while editing it, and to show how the collective energy can be a good stimulation for creation.

Der sensationelle Film, der in der exstatischen Zusammenarbeit entstand, wurde am 19. April 2001 am Markt der Möglichkeiten vorgestellt.