Wisla

Two actors, the trainer and assistant trainer of a soccer team, follow the course of an 'important' but fictive game. They act in an empty stadium, the camera focused exclusively on them, showing their seemingly significant gestures. The bare visual atmosphere of the empty Wisla Stadium in Krakow contrasts with the original sound tracks of two series A soccer matches from the Stadio Friuli in Udine. This complex principle of dualty structures other layers as well: from the contrasts in the two character studies, the dialectics of an apathetic scene and an aggressive-dynamic sound, from the gaping emptiness of the stadium as a run-down backdrop to the ironization of the same as a quasi-representational stage. The sparingly, but carefully used gestures of the actors is the catalyst of patterns of action that would have meaning within the framing event of a soccer game. In so doing, it becomes a metaphor of social practice, the ambivalent expression of power and powerlessness (Josef Dabernig).