[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOdCi9ElRDE[/youtube]

listen full soundtrack: http://noizecreator.bandcamp.com/

MARKUS DRAPER: N.O.E.

February 24 – March 6, 2011
Reception: Thursday, February 24, 6 – 8 pm

Artist talk: Markus Draper in conversation with critic David Cohen, Saturday, March 5, 12 pm

Hours: Monday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm and by appointment
Vogt Gallery, 508-526 West 26th Street # 911, New York, NY 10001

Exploring the psychology of teenage horror movies of the 80’s and 90’s, N.O.E. was inspired by the iconic movie “A Nightmare on Elm Street” as well as by the “acid house” music style of that time. Draper merges two separate phenomena of mainstream and underground culture creating a 7-minute film of unique character. In the original movie series of “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, there are 75 scenes that show an outside view of the house. Draper has re-shot those scenes using a model setting. In the artist’s re-interpretation, the actors have been intentionally excluded, shifting the focus of the work to the actual house depicted in the film. “This metamorphosis of the house as a significant backdrop, if not character of the movie as a whole fascinated me a lot and I have been wanting to work with it in a long time”, says Draper. Draper builds up on his previous work with fetish-like houses that he builds in model size. In order to accurately depict the house, he created four different models that replicate every detail of the house and set surroundings. According to Draper, “many of my videos almost have the character of a film still, or at least they return as loop to the point of origin. In my opinion, this comes about through my training as a painter and hence the attempt to seek, in film, an expansion of the painted image.”

As a trained and practicing painter, Markus Draper deliberately uses different artistic media, such as sculpture or site-specific installations, but since 2005, he has been focusing more on video. The integration of different types of media has become a defining element of his work. The film screening will be accompanied by a selection of photographs that chronicle the process of the making of the film.

DIRECTED BY: Markus Draper, SCRIPT: Markus Draper (based on “A Nightmare on Elm Street 1-7”),  MUSIC: Noize Creator,  CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dimitri Hempel,  EDITING: Sebastian Opp,  SET ARCHITECTURE: Leonor Serrano Rivas, LIGHT: Benjamin Schmidt,  PYROTECHNICS: David Bronke, PRODUCTION STILLS: Roman März,  ASSISTENTS: Johanna Heyne, Till Jürgens, Moyra Montoya Moyano, Philipp Pink, Elisa Zambelli

THANKS TO: Joachim Abrell, Barbara and Axel Bauer, Hendrik Czakainski, Andreas Fiedler, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Frank and Ralf Lehmann, Elka Krajewska, Leonor Serrano Rivas, Heinz Stahlhut, Johannes Vogt