Warrior
The absurdity of the war and the recurring male conflict
War appears to be a game, a pretensious behavour between two fronts without consideration of civil losses. What at first fascinates the beholder, maybe even amuses or stimulates him, becomes borring. The downfall ofT the parties is at the end of no interest to anyone.
Of course the plastic figures remind more of a toy and only by confronting each other they become threatening. Melting the gun barrels lets the threat become a joke. The two figures are identical, which means they also could be brothers, who have in the heat of the moment erroneously changed sides. They harm themselves instead of the alleged enemy.
The melting also illustrates the weekness of the individual, the individual does not count, losses are implied, one perishes fast and quiet.
The underlying music gives the whole situation a lightness, which it actually does not have and therefore emphasizes the irony and the drama of the situation.
The fixed camera position accentuates the inability of the beholder to act, he is forced to look. Touched by the downfall of the parties he is still not in a postion to undertake something and he remains captured in his own paralysis.

Text Nina Aregger
Translation from German by Lilane Winde