Erik Bünger
Erik BÜNGER (1976, Sweden) graduated in 2004 from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Universität der Künste in Berlin with a Masters of Fine Arts in Electro-acoustic Composition. In 2004 he began working as a video artist. Sound has always played an important role in his work where Bünger re-contextualises existing media in installations, performances and projects. In 2011, he received the Ars Viva Award from the German Kulturkreis. His work has been presented in venues such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Wellcome Collection in London, The Lincoln Center in New York, KW in Berlin, ACCA in Melbourne, The Curitiba Biennial in Brazil and the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara. In 2022, together with Florian WÜST he curated the Impakt Festival in Utrecht.
Filmography
(selection) The Allens (2004, short), Gospels (2004, short), Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground (2006, instal), Bytom hymn echo (instal), A Lecture on Schizophonia (2007-2009, short), God Moves on the Water (2008, short), Moonstruck (2008, instal), Aarhus Echo (2009, instal), The Third Man (2010), God Moves on the Water (2012, short), The Girl Who Never Was (2013, short), Nature See You (2022, short), The Mime and the Ape (2023, short)
Erik Bünger op IFFR
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God Moves on the Water
Erik Bünger | 3' | Germany | Dutch Premiere
Céline Dion sings praise of God’s implacable wrath in this mischievous media remix. -
The Girl Who Never Was
Erik Bünger | 59' | Germany | -
Ingenious live performance in which Bünger uses found footage to reanimate lost voices and create unexpected links. -
God Moves on the Water
Erik Bünger | 3' | Germany | None
Hilarious mashup of the official video for Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On with an old folk song by Blind Willie Johnson (1929) about…