Wolfgang Lehmann

Lek DV, 1'38'', 2008 Sweden

Tell me about this film, initial idea and work process.
I was thinking it was time to make a very short film, a film that could be made in one week or two. A nice and easy film. Perhaps a kind of study. One summer day I was together with an actress and we made a shooting on a hill. It was like a love play between performance and camera. In the editing I bring this image together with the image of two dragonflies. The dragonflies have a sort of love dance and the film ended with the sex between the dragonflies. A short summer dream. It is my main interest to work with a visuality which only exists in the head. The cut is so fast you see never the image on the stripe, you see only an image in your head as a result of the fast cut. The same form I used too in my long film TROLLSLÄNDOR MED FÅGLAR OCH ORM but in this film I combined 3 – 12 different images. LEK works only with two different images.

Are you working on new projects at the moment?
Yes! On a long running work with the title: TROLLSLÄNDOR MED FÅGLAR OCH ORM (Dragonflies with birds and snake). I've been working now for three years on the image material.

Do you have specific influences in your film/video making?
Yes, but it is coming more from music. I love also some of the classical avant-garde films and some contemporary works. But I can not call one direct person and say to this person I have a specific influences.

Why is it important for you to show your film/video in a festival?
Festivals are always a place to go in contact with other humans. To make a film or artwork is a form for me to go in communication with others. It is not important I come to the festival or not, a part of me (my film) is at the place. My work has a communication with the audience. I like to speak directly with other people but if it is not possible to go to different places at the same time, your art represents you at the same time in different places. My work and me as a person are two different forms to go in contact with other humans.

What role do you think Oslo Screen Festival should have to promote your work?
Good question. I hope that Oslo Screen Festival finds a good and big audience, this is the first time that my film is shown in Norway. I hope some people in the audience like my film and become curious to my next film. I think every serious publication, every presentation is a promotion.