Beeoff - Grass

Beeoff - Grass

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Like mentioned in many other texts about Beeoff and the surrounders of the group they are very much influenced by the video pioneers of the 1960’s and the film experiments by Andy Warhol. Grass is a good example of that. It consisted of grass seeds planted and growing and an electric motor rotating a stick horizontally. It was filmed by four cameras placed at different angles and mixed together so that you could see all four of them at the same time.

Important was the composition. Themselves they drew parallels to the mobiles of Alexander Calder and I would say that the piece belonged very much to the modernistic era just that Beeoff moved their concepts over to new media. That was half of it. The other half belonged to experimental film. Think of those of Andy Warhol. To film a man sleeping for five hours might sound like a strange idea. Beeoff filmed grass growing. That was the action, for weeks.