the head of vitus bering

When Vitus Bering completed his circumnavigation of northeast Asia on 13 August 1728 to prove that Asia and America are two separate continents, the coast of America was covered in fog and remained largely invisible to the discoverer. On the tracks of discovery. and at the same time groping through the dark; a confusing state, the various levels of which are made evident in Michaela Schwentner´s video the head of vitus bering. The picture shows the black silhouette of a landscape emerging from a brilliant white. The landscape is grouped on a horizontal and in some places also on...

Orig. Title
der kopf des vitus bering
Year
2005
Country
Austria
Duration
5 min
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
German
Subtitles
English
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