How the video project came about:

After the visit to Titania and especially the encounter with the mine's current landfill, I experienced the belief in the abilities of engineers as a form of hubris, a persistent belief in the possibilities of technology, despite the series of environmental disasters from recent years. The artificially created landscape with its completely flat horizon evoked associations with the "dead planet", and was best expressed through the guide's use of the term "engineering line". 

This became the starting point for my idea of ​​the engineer as a "balancing artist"; an anti-hero who in GOOD FAITH hopes to be able to control nature for the good of society (in this case, it is about controlling one's own body in the face of gravity). In the history of modernity, the engineer has been almost like a "demigod", cf. Jules Verne's novels from the second half of the 19th century and the utopian faith in science throughout the 20th century. 

The balance artist does not give up, despite adversity, many failed attempts and the associated autumn , despite the ruined landscape. There is a touch of romance about this, like the artist who also doesn't give up, despite adversity. That's why I wanted to be that character myself, try to learn the balancing act FOR REAL. The landscape with its abandoned feel has almost something epic about it, in every autumn when dark clouds slide across the sky and when the sunset casts long shadows. The lonely engineer on his wire may be reminiscent of the lonely wanderers in the paintings of Kaspar David Friedrich.