Title design and colorgrading for Live Long and Prosper, a 2 channel video installation by the Gob Squad Arts Collective, Berlin.

"'In the course of the twentieth century an absolutely new type of dying
has made an appearance in some of the most industrialised, urbanised
and technologically advanced areas of the Western world. Society has
banished death. Society no longer observes a pause; the disappearance
of an individual no longer affects its continuity. Everything in town goes
as if nobody died anywhere.'
Phillipe Aries - The Hour of Our Death

What: Seven film sequences are restaged by seven performers across the city of Berlin. Shown on two screens, the devices of narrative film are doubled up and reflected back on themselves in a cinematic game of 'spot the difference'.

Where: The mountains of the Wild West become escalators in the central station, a battlefield from a historic war becomes a city fairground and the interior of the Starship Enterprise is played by Pfennigland - a cheap "Everything's a Pound" shop.
The intertwined sequences and their doppelgangers weave simultaneously towards their inevitably tragic ends. Performers prepare and play-out their scenes with tender seriousness, leaving a trail of pretend corpses, extracted from their borrowed sources and abandoned in cinematic pull backs that reveal everyday urban life continuing around them.

How long: 20 minutes. English and German (with a tiny bit of Spanish)

First screening: 3. December 2009 at HAU Berlin/ Germany"