Die Angst als Grundbefindlichkeit des Daseins           What is anxiety — and why does it have no object?

             

According to Martin Heidegger, we feel anxiety when we are afraid, although there is nothing concrete to fear. Unlike fear, anxiety has no particular object — its discomfort refers more to being thrown into the world.

Anxiety is thus the realisation of our own existence: it embraces the knowledge of being detached from everything and confronts us with the task of choosing and grasping ourselves.

A conceptual short film and magazine project that translates this philosophical question into a visual language. 2012

role: concept, production
format: personal project
collaboration: Nikolai Gamasin, Markus Gebauer