Paparazzo is the name of a sensational photographer from the Fellini film “La Dolce Vita”, a name that has become proverbial for journalistic voyeurism.
Short audio pieces on the subject of “Paparazzi” were created at the Language Arts Institute of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, in which the sensational, the iconic and the scandalous are mixed together. References were both the infamous photo series and scandal reports of the tabloid press, as well as their artistic paraphrases – for example the reenactments of the artist group GRAM or the thousands of texts of the now classic web platform “Wir höflichen Paparazzi”, which was founded in 1999 by Tex Rubinowitz and Christian Ankowitsch.
The complete audio design of the audio pieces was produced by the Sound Design Master’s program at FH-JOANNEUM & University of Art and Design Graz.
Credits:
Pope in the pool
by Esma Ahmedi
Sound design: Katarzyna Kolecka
Voices: Betty Gjecaj, Orhan Kipcak, Paul Kraker, Violetta Zupancic
Slapstick at the Castell Gandolfo summer residence: the Pope swims in the pool, a paparazza is interested in his swimming trunks, but His Holiness knows how to defend himself.
Bismarck’s Rest
by Sean Pfeiffer
Sound design: Mahtab Miandehi
Voices: Betty Gjecaj and Paul Kraker
Viewing a forbidden photograph: Someone has been bribed. Chancellor Bismarck, who has just died, is secretly photographed. The photograph not only shows a dead man.
Starstruck Jizzkid
by Lotti Spieler and Jakob Stoiber
Sound design: Francisco Sylla
Voices: Betty Gjecaj, Orhan Kipcak, Paul Kraker
A paparazzi couple on a strange mission. Their monstrous client: a talking condom in search of his father.
Bone Job
by Daria Pauke
Sound design: Anna Semmelrath, Katarzyna Kolecka, Hannah Albrecht
Voices: Betty Gjecaj, Paul Kraker
A celebrity villa and a photographer without an invitation – and yet such a friendly reception? Are there dirty secrets? What smells so strange here? And who is in the closet?
Mrs. Karl
by Katharina Karl
Sound Design: Hannah Albrecht
Voices: Violetta Zupancic, Bettina Gjecaj and Paul Kraker
A mysterious arrangement: two paparazzi in conversation with the legendary Mr. Karl and his female counterpart – or should we say: two witnesses to a rumor, a transformation, a memory?
Stars and starlets
by Clemens Gartner and Florian Oberleiter
Sound design: Anna Semmelrath
Voices: Betty Gjecaj, Orhan Kipcak, Paul Kraker, Violetta Zupancic
Celebrity newsreader Paul Kraker is recognized at the supermarket checkout: How much booze can he buy? Does he have to work a night shift?
ORF sound engineer: Martin Leitner
