19-397: Vostell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Vostell (born 1960), German-Spanish composer and film director Mercedes Vostell (1933–2023), Spanish writer Wolf Vostell (1932–1998), German painter and sculptor See also [ edit ] Ostell [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
38-460: A metaphor . In its metaphorical sense, it could refer to the state of the planet Earth, to its being or to existence itself. Long camera takes, scenes which are designed to show the acting pared down to the essential, dialogues only as necessary and much music show his individual directing style, but often leave the cinema audience puzzled. The Being from Earth differs strongly from the conventional view of cinema. The Being from Earth , just like
57-546: A characteristic trait with a style of its own, which breaks with all conventions. In 1990 David Vostell directed the feature film The Being from Earth in Los Angeles . This feature, with German title Das Wesen der Erde , tells the fantastic story of a being, a mixture between animal and plant, born out of the sands of the Mojave Desert . The film title alludes mainly to this being born from earth, but it can also be seen as
76-448: A photolab, in a photostudio and as photographer. In 1979, together with some of his former school mates, he made 36574 Bilder ( 36574 Images ), an experimental film in Super 8 . In 1980 he shot the documentary Endogen Depression about the making of an Installation by Wolf Vostell. In 1982 he shot the short film Ginger Hel starring Mark Eins, founder of the band Din A Testbild, and with
95-520: Is Music . The soundtrack for the video sequences of faraway galaxies transmitted by the Hubble Space Telescope . The digital booklet accompanying the CD shows 26 digital photomontages, visualising travel in time and the search for alien life forms in the universe in a concrete way. In 2012 he composed the music for Iris Brosch ´s video In Paradisum . The Being from Earth The Being from Earth
114-452: Is a 1991 German science fiction drama film directed by David Vostell . It was filmed in summer of 1990 in Los Angeles in English. The Being from Earth tells the story of a day when the lives of various people are in danger due to the connection between their actions and the inexplicable events surrounding the birth of The Being from Earth. A hybrid of animal and plant, born from the sands of
133-502: Is already on Teddy because of the planned bank robbery and follows them. After a fight, they leave the downed cop and drive back to Goofy's. They are pursued by curious neighbors. A group of three people, having found out about the birth through the visions of the medium Miriam, track down Melissa and Teddy. Goofy dies in a shootout. Melissa and the being are kidnapped by the group. Teddy tracks them to an abandoned factory floor and tries to free Melissa, but fails. Melissa gets tied up. With
152-465: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles David Vostell David Vostell (born 10 October 1960) is a German-Spanish composer and film director. David Vostell was born in Cologne , the first child of Wolf Vostell and his Spanish wife Mercedes Guardado . His father and his father's art have formed his view of the world from his earliest childhood onwards. The artistics movements of
171-510: Is marked by long, rhythmic passages of music, long shots and action and dialogue between the actors which are reduced to elementary scenes. This creates an idiom in which the music accompanies the scenes and is on equal terms with the images. Between 1985 and 1987, he produced seven music videos . David Vostell's music videos are far from the technical perfection of music videos of the 1980s. His music videos are an experimental mixture of pictures and music. Blurred, uneasy and repetitive shots form
190-590: The Kino Babylon in Berlin . The film was released on VHS in 1992 and in 2022 on Blu-ray in the Original English Version. The film's title primarily refers to the being born from the earth. But it can also be understood as a metaphor . The being in the film is not a monster or beast. It's a kind of life that we don't know. The Being from Earth differs greatly from the conventional understanding of cinema and
209-485: The Mojave Desert . Melissa finishes her night shift in a genetics lab in the morning and drives to her boyfriend Teddy, who is planning a bank robbery with Goofy, a friend. Melissa tries to dissuade him. While driving on a highway through the Mojave Desert, Melissa panics and tells Teddy to stop the car immediately. They see the birth of the being out of the sands of the desert and take it home with them. A police officer
SECTION 10
#1732884933032228-564: The sperm of the being, Melissa is supposed to be fertilized and give birth to a new being. Teddy can prevent this at the last second. The Being from Earth was created by Georg Sili, Bruce Fuller / KNB EFX Group and David Vostell. Filming took place in Los Angeles in Palmdale, California and in the Mojave Desert. Film laboratory was Consolidated Film Industries / CFI- Hollywood and Geyer-Werke Berlin. The film premiered on December 8, 1991, in
247-411: The surname Vostell . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vostell&oldid=1181286451 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
266-505: The 1960s and the early 1970s as well as his father's circle with people as Nam June Paik and Allan Kaprow , with whom he often sat together as a teenager, marked him deeply. From 1977 until 1980 he made apprenticeships at the TV and radio station Sender Freies Berlin , as well as at the publicity agency TBWA in Frankfurt am Main . He worked as an assistant film editor, as a film projectionist, in
285-653: The Wolf Vostell Archive and gave it a chronological order. Since 2002 David Vostell has worked as a composer in Spain. In 2003 he created the Symphony Nº 1 and in 2004 the Symphony Nº 2 . In 2005 he composed Formulas of Life . 24 suites associated with 24 key words, such as birth, love and dream. The digital booklet accompanying the CD shows all 24 words as digitally visualised photomontages which are linked to his compositions. In 2006 David Vostell composed The Universe
304-459: The actress Panterra Hamm. The film tells a bizarre love story set in the Berlin underground movement. In Norse mythology Hel is the name for both the netherworld and its goddess . This allusion to mythology is conveyed in some scenes of the film by the roles of the actors as they blur into mythological figures. From his early short films onwards, his special affinity for music is in evidence. The film
323-500: The documentary Vostell 60 – Rückblick 92 ( Vostell 60 – Review 92 ) about Wolf Vostell's retrospective in Cologne was created under his artistic direction. In 1995 he worked on a series of drawings, sketching his cinematic visions, which led to the publication of the Sketchbook 95 / 96 and Sketchbook 97 / 98 . After Wolf Vostell's death in 1998, David Vostell took responsibility for his father's legacy. From 1998 until 2001 he organised
342-483: The short film Ginger Hel , is an extremely enigmatic film. It asks the question Why again and again, but very rarely comes up with an answer. The viewer's expectation of finding a clarifying, conventional narrative structure quickly gives way to the search for insight. But even this is difficult to find. Various interpretations of the action are possible and it is probably meant to be that way. The film develops its own obscure dynamic. The Being from Earth appears to invite
361-501: The viewer to let themselves drift and to recognise perfection in life and in film as an impossible idea. The being in the film is extremely passive. It does not bite, or kill. In character it can be compared with the creature in Eraserhead by David Lynch . After the premiere on December, 8, 1991 in the Kino Babylon in Berlin , Lars Olav Beier wrote a review of The Being from Earth in the magazine Tip Berlin number 25 / 1991. In 1992
#31968