REQUIEM - the Song of Songs of Life
the NITSCH-ARTvideo


A film, which frees the 56th painting action from all negligibilities in a special manner and oscillates between Dionysian surge and Apollinian silence.
It was constructed as a film collage out of more than 16.000 single pictures and has been accented with NITSCH's symphony "The Egyptian".
The text consists of single fragments of sentences, which have been taken from about 30 books and writings of NITSCH. They remained unchanged and have only been newly choreographed. In this way it describes in an authentic way the underlying extremly complex thinking of this universal artist and thereby also emphasizes the sacral character of the painting process.
NITSCH's philosophy of BEING is narrated by two of his closest friends.

A work, that sees itself as a meditative preparation for the power of Action and Orgien-Mysterien-Theater (OMT).