Vienna 2011

This installation/movie was a further step on the way to the making of the feature film LOS FELIZ – the first road movie ever shot in a studio by means of using drawn and painted two-dimensional backdrops and combining them with actors. This piece/ film is the second chapter of an ongoing series dealing with central perspective – see Enduring Freedom, Longing and The Scent Of Snow.

cast
Tarzan Peter Kern
Jane Yukika Kudo
Ape Luis Rosenstrauch

camera Daniel Hollerweger
sound: Andreas Daxer
editor: Stefan Fauland
executive producer: Karin Klimitsch
set drawings/producer/director Edgar Honetschläger

Tarzan, aged and fat, is madly in love with one of his ape friends. Jane pops up and causes trouble. The monkey finds solace on his i-phone were his former lover still looks like Johnny Weissmuller. Tarzan 2011 is an ironic adaption of the iconic scene in which Tarzan meets Jane for the first time (‚Tarzan the ape man’ by W.S. van Dyke from 1932) and learns how to speak. Tarzan 2011 is a reference to how the internet turns us all into Tarzans but gives us the chance to stay young and beautiful in virtual space forever.