Homo Sapiens | 1985

Homo Sapiens | Music Video by David Vostell | Music by Mark Eins / Din A Testbild | VHS Camera Panasonic M3 | Original Version 30M4S | West Berlin 1985.

David Vostell - visual style 1979 - 1989

No digital, no megapixel, no HD - only Super 8, 16 mm and VHS analog equipment create his early aesthetics. David Vostell has gathered a unique ensemble of visual misfits in order to vandalize the usual look of music videos. His provocative images - ironic and political makes him a moralist, like his father. Now in 2025 it is a illustrated survey. It is now a responsible philosophy and simultaneously culminates in visual and acoustic morbidities. We like to spent with you some minutes of your devot time to show you images mixed and blended with music to suit your eclectic tastes.
David Vostell shows in his videos the deconstruction of hopeless strategies of coping our solitude in modern western civilisation. We love to inspire you and make you dedicated buffs protagonists to be a aspiring filmmaker in your own visual world and sent you best wishes and reverential embraces.
Come hailstorms, harsh winds or floods, nothing can prevent to live your life’s at the fullest. Video is a powerful language to create a deeper insight, a expanded understanding of space - the evolution of virtual spaces - our soul immersed between virtual and real - a visual journey to our
emotional spectrum between absolute happiness and total frustration. The phenomenological sense of being a human being - extremely condensed series of events, melt into one another. Life is a vibrant source of inspiration to create our own contents for a positive feedback.
The trashy-look of David Vostell`s videos in the 1980s, the totally innovative view of non-perfection of video and audio makes him an outstanding lone rider in culture and society. David Vostell's extravagant music videos and films are hallucinogenic journeys through an endless tunnel of imagination, with all the complexity of creatures in an extremely fantastical atmosphere created in extremis.

We will take you on several journeys to overwhelm your senses, to transport you to a kind of psychedelic state, where we will be able to change your consciousness and direct it to different places, different levels of a new magical space.

David Vostell's music videos from the 1980s have not lost their power to show us a vision of an extremely imperfect world, where harmony does not exist. The images are wild, harsh, aggressive, disturbing, strange, out of focus, and often repeated. They show us an example of living an audiovisual experience
far from the artificial perfection of mainstream videos. David Vostell mixes everyday scenes with images taken directly from television as if this whole visual experience we’re a recording taken directly from our minds in the most confusing moments of our existence.

Our thoughts, dreams, fears, worries, memories, and desires mix together in our minds, often without any particular order. This is what David's music videos are like: an attempt to visualize images from our minds in the most confusing moments to show us that sometimes we have to find harmonious peace of mind and try to erase images to make room for new ones. The imperfection of the images and sounds in David Vostell's music videos are a proposal to experience visual chaos in order to put our minds in order after a storm. Mark Eins' electronic music for several of the music videos was innovative in the 1980s, His first experience with cinematography is evident in the film 36574 Bilder, shot with friends in Super 8 on the streets of Berlin in 1979. On the one hand, it is an experimental proposal in which images of everyday life alternate with close-ups taken from films by Alfred Hitchcock and other films that influenced him, and on the other hand, it is an excessive storm of images taken directly from the television screen. This mixture of images is altered in visual speed until they collapse at the end of the film. Ginger Hel, from 1982, is a short film shot in Berlin during the punk era that leads actors Mark Eins and Pantera to become figures from Norse mythology, in an audiovisual setting that allows us to recognize David Vostell's unique style of using music in his films. The inferior quality of the images and the sound of this video is intentional by the artist.
Beautiful imperfection.
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