BURNINGCAMPARILOUNGE
digital, 7min, 16:9, 2025, OmeU, color
Burning (Campari Lounge) is an attempt to recreate my personal memory. I tried to visualize the process of my own thinking and remembering.
I see this work as an experiment—working with still images for the first time. This way of working is an homage to Chris Marker’s La Jetée.
He described his film as a „photo novel.“ I move the images, and to me, this movement represents my focus. The story being told is one that happened to me in the spring two years ago. At my grandmother’s 91st birthday party, I wanted to secretly film the guests. So I placed my camcorder on top of a lamp, hidden in a corner of the room. I was responsible for making the drinks, which were Campari. There is a famous song by Swiss musician Polo Hofer called Campari Soda. You hear fragments of conversations—this is me observing the party and listening to people talk. After three hours, I had, of course, completely forgotten that I had placed the camera there—and it caught fire. That was quite a shock, and in the end, I threw it out the window. Everyone was alarmed. The images are taken from my personal archive, which I collected over a period of three years. First, there was the story; then came the images. I edited them associatively to fit the story. I also find it interesting that the video I had originally intended to make at the party was lost in the fire. Here, I attempt to recreate those images. But now, the story exists only in my memory, making it fragmented—which, I suppose, also makes it interesting.
PHOTOGRAPHY & VOICE Flurina Schneider
MUSIC Paul Ebhardt