Simon Pummell
26 Jan - 05 Feb 2012
SIMON PUMMELL
The Sputnik Effect
26 January – 5 February, 2012
During the International Film Festival, TENT is showing the installation The Sputnik Effect by British director Simon Pummell, as a pendant piece for his film Shock Head Soul, which premières in Pathé during the festival, and a website of the same name. Simon Pummell’s project focuses on Daniel Paul Schreber, a patient of Sigmund Freud who became world-famous for his autobiography on insanity and schizophrenia (1903). In the media installation The Sputnik Effect, the visitor wearing 3D glasses becomes increasingly entangled in the schizophrenic world of Daniel Paul Schreber. The title refers to the effect observed in 1951, when, a few days after the launch of this first satellite, a large number of psychiatric patients believed they were receiving messages from the Sputnik PS-1.
Simon Pummell received international acclaim with his BAFTA award-winning trans-media project Bodysong in 2003. Simon Pummell lives in the Netherlands and is writer/director of documentaries, animation and fiction. Furthermore, he is active as researcher and teacher and is head of the department Lens-Based Media Design & Communication Programme, Piet Zwart Instituut, at the Willem de Kooning Academie.
The Sputnik Effect
26 January – 5 February, 2012
During the International Film Festival, TENT is showing the installation The Sputnik Effect by British director Simon Pummell, as a pendant piece for his film Shock Head Soul, which premières in Pathé during the festival, and a website of the same name. Simon Pummell’s project focuses on Daniel Paul Schreber, a patient of Sigmund Freud who became world-famous for his autobiography on insanity and schizophrenia (1903). In the media installation The Sputnik Effect, the visitor wearing 3D glasses becomes increasingly entangled in the schizophrenic world of Daniel Paul Schreber. The title refers to the effect observed in 1951, when, a few days after the launch of this first satellite, a large number of psychiatric patients believed they were receiving messages from the Sputnik PS-1.
Simon Pummell received international acclaim with his BAFTA award-winning trans-media project Bodysong in 2003. Simon Pummell lives in the Netherlands and is writer/director of documentaries, animation and fiction. Furthermore, he is active as researcher and teacher and is head of the department Lens-Based Media Design & Communication Programme, Piet Zwart Instituut, at the Willem de Kooning Academie.