“ … Wyborny began making films in the late 1960’s, following several years of studying theoretical physics, and was part of the explosive generation of New German Cinema filmmakers that included Harun Farocki, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Werner Schroeter, Alexander Kluge, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Over the past 40-plus years, Wyborny has created a rich, varied body of work that blurs the boundaries between experimental, documentary, and essay filmmaking. …“ | From: „STUDIES FOR THE DECAY OF THE WEST“ (Sunday, September 30th) | http://nightingaletheatre.org/nightingalefront1.html

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„… In Wyborny’s „musical film,“ every new sound triggers a new image: 6,299 shots, all directly edited within his Super-8 camera. An intoxicating, stroboscopic trip to industrial, natural and urban landscapes in East Africa, New York, the Ruhr region and Rimini.?This experimental music film refers to Oswald Spengler’s world-famous 1918 philosophical work The Decay of the West. Culture pessimist Spengler argues that progress is an illusion and that the modern era brings little good. People are no longer able to understand the rationality of the world. Wyborny does not set out to make a film version of Spengler’s theories, but rather a visual reflection on the modern age; a stroboscopic journey in five parts to industrial, natural and urban landscapes. He uses 6,299 shots, edited directly in a Super-8 camera. … “ | http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/studies-for-the-decay-of-the-west | [STUDIES FOR THE DECAY OF THE WEST, Klaus Wyborny, 1979/2010, 80 min, Super-8mm to Video (DVD exhibition format), Germany]

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“ … Federico Rossin: You studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Hamburg and then in New York: how have your studies influenced your work as filmmaker?

Klaus Wyborny: Often I look at pictures as almost abstract quantum-field-like entities. Something that pops up in space and time, and then disappears. A particle that came to life and vanishes after an interaction with a viewer. Accordingly, I don’t think of pictures being „images“ that record reality, but I consider them to be „impressions“ depicting certain atmospheric qualities that are unique for a short moment or will disappear very soon. So I don’t aim at a „realistic“ presentation of world phenomena, but I rather want to generate something like a visual „impressionism in time“. … “ | From: „Interview with Klaus Wyborny“ (May 11-13, 2012) | http://cmzimmermann.blogspot.de/2012/06/interview-with-klaus-wyborny.html

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Website über den Filmmacher Klaus Wyborny
http://wyborny.cinegraph.de/ | http://wyborny.cinegraph.de/Wymac/Facsimi/Media.htm

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Wyborny