Zeichen und Wunder

In this mix of mythology (radiant light beams outward from the “European Patent Office” as the brilliant thinking that animates the content of the patent files finds a literal expression) and pure camp (television bloopers are created), the foibles of live television in Germany are sent up, including the less-than-trenchent observations of so-called television journalists. To add a little verisimilitude to the proceedings, the director, writer, and photographer Niklaus Schilling first shot his footage with a video camera, and then filmed it off a monitor – creating that pixel-dappled surface of flickering light that viewers will instantly identify as “television.”