JUST
MID
NIGHT

animated film (2010)
visualization of a poem by Robert Lax
3 min 37 sec
idea and execution:  Susanne Wiegner


"just midnight" is a poem by Robert Lax, that describes a temporal and spacial situation by
very minimal means.
For Robert Lax the composition of the letters and words on the paper was very important. 
And so he created one of his vertical typefaces, that was transferred for the film. 
The letters become spaces and actors, crossed and circled by the camera. 
Step by step a three-dimensional formation of words is generated and disappears again 
in a sheet of paper.

screenings:
27.May. 2011 Trevigliopoesia, Bergamo
winner of the festival-prize "la parola immaginata 2011"
http://www.trevigliopoesia.it/public/index.php/just-midnight/  
20.May. - 22.May. 2011,  Digital Arts Festival, Athens
08.May - 02.June 2011,  exhibition da.zwischen/in.between, galerie49, Munich
17.May - 19.May 2011  re-new, digital arts festival, Copenhagen
15.Feb. 2011, directors lounge, Berlin
14. - 17. Oct.  2010, ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin
28.Oct. - 21.Nov. 2010   kunsTTempel, Kassel
12.Nov. 2010  Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille
16.Nov. - 21.Nov. 2010   Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Berlin (Volksbühne)