Dogfilm
«Soap»

14 days in the life of our «neighbours» residing somewhere between Coronation Street and Dallas, «young and passionate», «rich and beautiful», Hugh and Liz.

Condensed into a frantic whirl of black-and-white pictogrammes interspersed with clipped documentary interviews, the soap opera galaxy is revealed as an endless loop of never-changing TV storylines taken from TV-programme weeklies whose essence is the narrative salto mortale and comic-strip anecdote. Beyond this, however, the authors’ collective creates a wholly new symbolic pictorial language by matching even the most intricate twists in the stories with irresistibly funny, astonishingly imaginative qraphics. “Subversive TV fun” is the blunt message conveyed by the five underDOGs of the Berlin video scene whose cooperative title and location, “Botschaft”, means message too.

Rudolf Frieling