Tommy Schneider

The documentary scenes in Chinese Minutes show people, animals, things and machines in continuos motion within the choreography of everyday live. The intensive impression of situations or moments is to be established without comment. By repetition of scenes, the sound level produces a significance that enables a unique perception - comparable to a way of comprehension, where somebody understands what was said, without knowing a word of the spoken language. Chinese Minutes is part of an experimental documentary series, which is to arrange authentic situations and moments in a particular time system to transfer reality without a spoken comment.