Josephin Böttger
in cooperation with
Peter Afken

Hibernation Hibertalk
DV, 4:3, 10.33 min., 2006
language: german
subtitles: english
direction, camera, drawings, sound, editing: Josephin Böttger
2. camera, drawings: Peter Afken
actors: Peter Afken, Josephin Böttger, Florian Tampe

Hibernation – Hibertalk draws the viewer into the inner ear of our most intimate narratives, the sequences of fragmented imagery strung together and emitted
while we sleep. Busy mental processes extracted as inconclusive writing on
the wall, a palimpsestic hubbub of swirling graffiti and scribbles.
The protagonists are depicted as sleepwalkers meandering through collapsing
gameboy architecture, cohabiting modernistic primeval forests with a brown bear
which might or might not be a nocturnal alter ego, or are seen as urban campers
waking up to oddly unperturbing helter-skelter nightmares of subconscious
demolition. Scientists in white coats wander in and out of dreamt laboratories, dissecting brains to unleash cranioscopic graphic energy.
Overall, the varying rhythms and the bubbling, composite soundtrack of noises
and voices creates a mesmeric kaleidoscope of sensory activity, a literally endless narrative of the same bits and pieces of subterranean junk we concoct every time
we tumble into sleep, collectively or individually.

Matthew Partridge
September 2006
(extract of the text)