Lamento
TITLE
Lamento
DIRECTOR
Jannik Giger, Demian Wohler
COUNTRY
Switzerland
YEAR
2025
DURATION
17′
GENRE
Video Art
Lamento
LAMENTO shows the construction of desire and affect, the fact that there is never a coming together of uninterpreted bodies, but always only the clash of socially constructed fantasies and role-playing games. The script for this is a composition of extracted verses from famous love songs and sampled organ sounds, by which the characters are animated and instrumentalised in some sort of reverse exorcism. A woman and a man find themselves in a sitcom set, HE is sitting on the sofa, the TV is on, a car drives up, SHE comes in. There's an immediate conflict of which the characters themselves might not even know the origin. But they follow the script, they try to authenticate the emotions of the music that drives them from room to room, from one situation to the next. And whilst the rehearsed gestures get more alien and the setting more nightmarish, the claimed reality becomes increasingly permeable.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Jannik Giger, Demian Wohler
Jannik Giger- Born in 1985 in Basel, Switzerland. 2010 Bachelor in Sound Arts from University of the Arts Bern. 2012 Master in Music Composition from HSLU (Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst). 2012-15 Master studies in Specialized Music Performance at Basel Conservatory. His works are received internationally in music, film and art contexts such as Wigmor Hall London, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing, the Swiss Art Awards and the Theater Basel. Demian Wohler-Born in 1984 in Rotkreuz, Switzerland. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Scenography from the Basel Academy of Art and Design in 2010. His work takes place in a wide variety of contexts. He designs stage spaces for theatre and opera at various theatre institutions in German-speaking countries. He works as a set designer both in film and at the interface with the visual arts.
- DirectorJannik Giger, Demian Wohler
- ScreenplayJannik Giger
- CinematographyRamòn Giger
- Cast
- EditingJannik Giger
- Producer/s Jannik Giger, Demian Wohler
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleLamento
- Project TypeVideo Art
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originSwitzerland
- Country of filmingSwitzerland
- LanguageEnglish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Jannik Giger, Demian Wohler
Jannik Giger- Born in 1985 in Basel, Switzerland. 2010 Bachelor in Sound Arts from University of the Arts Bern. 2012 Master in Music Composition from HSLU (Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst). 2012-15 Master studies in Specialized Music Performance at Basel Conservatory. His works are received internationally in music, film and art contexts such as Wigmor Hall London, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing, the Swiss Art Awards and the Theater Basel. Demian Wohler-Born in 1984 in Rotkreuz, Switzerland. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Scenography from the Basel Academy of Art and Design in 2010. His work takes place in a wide variety of contexts. He designs stage spaces for theatre and opera at various theatre institutions in German-speaking countries. He works as a set designer both in film and at the interface with the visual arts.
