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Die Narbe / The Scar is a film project in two parts by Burkhard von Harder ? in both cases helicopter flights following the remnants of the former inner German divide and demarcation line 20 years after the reunification. Part I ? Westberlin follows the former death strip in 76 minutes, part II takes the viewer in 16 hours realtime from the Czech border to the Baltic Sea up North along 1378 km through four seasons in three years: a line becomes a circle that turns into a spiral. The pod version of Part II (Von Prex bis Priwall) is envisioned as 28 volumes representing 28 years of oppression, covering 50 km each. So far 4 double volumes condense the experience.

synopsis CYCLES Appropriation of Godfrey Reggio's QATSI Trilogy ‘That is really expanded cinema, explaining cinema as a direct theory for the eye.’ Pip Chodorov, Director of The Film Gallery, Paris after watching the project's silent version 24 Frames per Second - Deconstructing Movies was the title of my exhibition that opened on Christmas Eve 2015 in Beijing/China. The project’s aim was to make visible each and every single frame of a given movie, in this case Zhang Yimou’s ‘Raise the Red Lantern’. A digital file as scroll had been created and, printed in book form as well, but now for the first time on wallpaper that kept meandering 40 meters in length and 3 meter in height along the gallery walls. More Untitled Filmscrolls were to follow even if the results soon appeared too limited being too static. More digital experimentation, reintroducing movement, led to another climax that seemed to be peek with the digital translation of Godfrey Regio’s QATSI Trilogy. Renamed CYCLES (CYCLE OF DISRUPTION - CYCLE OF WAR - CYCLE OF CHANGE) an extraordinary visual DNA was revealed, the dance of hundreds of thousands of frames caused by the excessive use of stop motion technology of the original, including time lapse, jump cuts, use of color etc., most fascinating hidden meta-levels of the cinematic language with endless cascades of caleidoscopic image patterns no one seemed aware of they existed. As in real life viewers of a film are locked into the unfolding process of time. Looking at a filmscroll is like looking at time from the outside, with past, presence and future happening simultaneously, transcending the usual timeline. The drone-soundtrack by Thomas Fleischhauer (2024), created especially for the Moving Image Art Prize, offers a new experience alltogether. BURKHARD von HARDER, 2024

biographical note burkhard von harder, *1954, germany photographer, filmmaker, artist Film Studies Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, 1977/78 Guest Student of Willy Fleckhaus, University of Wuppertal, 1982/83