Friedrich Kunath | You Go Your Way, And I’ll Go Crazy

Excerpts from the 17min experimental film installation “You Go Your Way, And I’ll Go Crazy” for Friedrich Kunath’s gallery show “Lacan’s Haircut” @ Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.

The main — and only — character is a despairing, aging man who is handsome enough he could have been an actor. The man goes sailing in the Santa Monica Bay, tries to fry an egg in a skillet on the beach, and moves through other (largely improvised) vignettes in the film trying to connect to someone or maybe anyone.

But his phone is unplugged; his suitcase is flooded with water; connections fail. In the final scene he rests his head on a bowl filled with tiny cactuses, as though it were a pillow.

The video, and for that matter the show as a whole, displays so much naked emotion that you can almost feel the edgy contemporary art crowd begin to squirm. [LA TIMES]

Written & Directed by: Friedrich Kunath
Starring: Rudy Verwey
Casting: Treanna Lawrence, Ben Sealey
Cinematographer: Kay Madsen
Music: Andrew Bulbrook, Max Sterling
Audio Mix: Daniel Eaton

Made with the generous support of:
Tim Blum
Jeff Poe
Margarete Kunath
Nora Berman
Michael Schmelling

ClientFriedrich KunathServicesAudio FinishingYear2014