Ive, Spacey oder der dritte Weg

[only german] Produktinszenierung von Siedle Scope: Telefon und zugleich zentrale Schaltstelle für die Haustechnik in Einem. CHBP konzipierte und realisierte den Film als Hybrid aus 3D-Animationen, die das Design des Geräts preisen und der Performance eines Schauspielers auf Schwarz. Das Drehbuch von Robin Baum und Marc Comes entwickelt drei Perspektiven auf die Figur – als Präsentator, Plauderer und als...

Ein Gespräch über Ausstellungen & Teppiche

[only german] Herbert Lachmayer konfrontiert klassizistische Architekturen mit moderner Kunst: Güldenes trifft Buntes, Pompöses auf Spielerisches. Im Interview mit der Journalistin Lilli Hollein berichtet er von der Zusammenarbeit mit Teppichhersteller Vorwerk und den Hintergründen seiner didaktischen "Interventionen", die er u.a. in der Wiener Albertina und im Stadtschloss Weimar inszeniert hat. Das Ziel ist ein lässiger...

Spot for T-Home as a homage to the 80s

De Lorean, the car. Who remembers the utopic DMC, the vehicle for the journey through time in »Back to the Future«? CHBP and the agency brandrelation realised a viral spot for T-Home/ IT Software Services, which refers to the office of the future: globally mobile, hands free and the internet as hard disk. 

Vier Wasseranschlüsse für ein Hallelujah

[only german] Der Armaturenhersteller Dornbracht widmet sich verstärkt der professionalisierten Küche. Für jeden Vorgang gibt es eine eigene »Water Zone«: Preparing. Cooking. Cleaning... Marc Comes inszeniert die Wasserstellen als Mischung aus kühler Technikkathedrale und Kochshow. Doch Sternekoch Frank Buchholz schweigt. Eine atemlose Konzentration der Arbeitsgeräusche entsteht.

 The New »Elemental Spa« by Dornbracht

Dornbracht creates surplus in the bathroom. Yesterday's washing becomes today's ritual cleansing, a genuine body-and-soul experience in your own SPA. An existential backlash with modern water sources (Sieger Design) placed in archaic architecture (Mike Meiré) made of rusty steel (Cor-Ten, known from artists such as Richard Serra), oxidizing copper and olive wood. Marc Comes staged...

Performance by Noritoshi Hirakawa

In the performance "Vier Zwei Eins" the artist also deals with a social taboo: the subconscious desires between father and daughter. Beneath the surface of daily communication the story steps into a subconscious level as a dialogue of existential impact. The inner conflict of the leading actress is dramatically staged...

Malcolm McLaren macht Werbung

Das Hotel Chateau Marmont ist wohl einer der wichtigsten Orte der Glamourindustrie. Es liegt in West-Hollywood am Sunset Boulevard und ist mit seiner anekdotenreichen Geschichte der richtige Ausgangspunkt für eine Werbefeldzug des schweizer Mobilfunkunternehmens Sunrise, das Connectivity jenseits aller Berge und Grenzen preist. Galionsfigur ist der sekretärinnenbefreite Handlungreisende Malcolm McLaren, bekannt als Erfinder und Manager der Punk Band »Sex Pistols«.

Commercial for Car Ads

Need a Car? In this cinema spot a young couple are having sex in an empty parking lot, since they have no car. An advert for the classified car-ads in a daily newspaper.

"I was nearly as much interested in the thick white lines and crosses on the asphalt as I wanted to make the spot the portrait of the girl" (Marc Comes). The commercial won the Eagle Award (Television) in Mexico.

On Air Design for WDR

After the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 and the decision of the goverment to move the capital from pittoresque Bonn to the ”poor but sexy city" Berlin, the former bed of chancellors Schmidt and Kohl in the »Kanzlerbungalow« remained empty. The history laden spot was...

Opener for the VIVA plus Short Formats

VIVA Plus was the sister of the music television VIVA. In 2002 CHBP produced a line of openers for hot themes in sport, technics, celebrities and others. This short infotainment feature named short formats and the paramount directive in the use of asthetics was: Perceptual congruence. See the complete short format compilation.

Cinema and TV Spot for the »Welt Kompakt«

»Welt Kompakt« is the only national daily newspaper sneaking up to the internet community by offering a daily internet department and counting on the connection and interaction with social networks like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google Wave. The agency Dorten in Stuttgart with AD Thorsten Lessinsky developed a campaign which was implemented across all types of media and which adapts typical attributes...

Short films with a serial character for T-Systems

»Application Performance Management«, »Voice over IP« and »Unified Communication & Collaboration« are IT solutions for the B2B division of T-Systems which are linked in a complex way. The agency brandrelation designed together with the film production company CHBP short films for T-Systems, which are tailored to the IT users. »The machine wants to be human and the human being acts like a machine. This is the classic topic of Science Fiction the ironic series is about.« Director Marc Comes wrote...

Die Neue Armatur von Dornbracht

[only german] Diamanten kleben auf hautfarbenen Nylonstrümpfen. Wasser plätschert in miniaturisierte Lagunen. Das Bad als Skulptur. So oder ähnlich feiert sich die neue Armatur (Sieger Design) mit ihrem aufwendigen Facettenschliff in der Architektur von Mike Meiré. Zum Song »Like a Child« der JUNIOR BOYS fotografierte Marc Comes die Supernova als im White Cube gelandetes Ding. Eine Studie der Formen, Farben, Materialien. Menschen überflüssig.

Yannick – a Portrait

Yannick has many friends, lots of women, knows how to skate and lives with his mother in a small health resort. Commercial training, cocktail bar, Sex...

Unbreakable Tyres in the New BMW X5

Before the obstacle is after the obstacle – even if the air is gone. Which makes her smile while he is having doubts about their journey: a small role reversal in a car that arrives anyway. The fragile psychodynamics is forced by Saint-Saën's „Le carnaval des animaux“. Commercial for the Run Flat Technology, a standard feature in the new BMW X5.

Our designer Manu Burghart is one of Rosemarie Trockel´s favourite subjects. Her first film in the series »Manu´s Spleen« is set in a graveyard. Manu needs a nap.

CHBP did the first Design for the ARD Morgenmagazin 2005

CHBP has developed a gentle, light and impressionistic visual realm for the television program featuring the »orange«. Everyday moments of the morning hours were composed as atmospheric images using the new CI colors of the Morgenmagazin. Our Director's Cut combines the various openers related to different topics of the three hour program.

Where Spirituality Has a Playful Ground

»Jivan« narrates the passion of 13-year-old Jivan. Water as violence, water as mechanics; a futurist bathtub as an amniotic sac, the intensities of light. Jivan opens up his eyes. He folds his felt and steps into the open. "When Mike Meiré came up...

ABSOLUT VODKA as a Target

To enter the new millenium, swedish brand Absolut Vodka chose Rosemarie Trockel as "Absolut Artist" - among her predecessors are people like Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst. There was a big party in Berlin with a live performance by Justus Köhnke, a homage to Hildegard Knef: Spirals Of Memory...

Fashion, Fans and a moved Camera

"Bless No.9 deals with the label hype: Bless is printed, stitched, painted on all their designs in any way. It was Prêt-á-Porter autumn 1999. We took the fashion and let its models present them at other designers' shows like YSL, Watanabe, Balenciaga, Martin Margiela a.o. we were invited to. I filmed the interaction between the show and the Bless models in the audience, then edited the footage every night after the shows and Carlo worked on the sound mix to complete the own virtual show. The result was...

Neuer Vorspann für Tag 7

[only german] CHBP hat mit dem Designdepartement des WDR das neue On Air Design von Tag 7 entwickelt und realisiert. Neben der Überarbeitung der Wortmarke stand die Gestaltung des 9 sekündigen Vorspanns im Mittelpunkt des neuen Auftritts. Marc Comes fotografierte Menschen aller Altersgruppen und fügte die Einzelbilder zu einer stakkatohaften Sequenz, in der die Portraits im Schnelldurchlauf zu einer Bewegung von Schicksalen werden.

Solare Zellen - neue Archivalien

[only german] Solarsysteme, die zweite: das Bildarchiv des Photovoltaik-Systemhauses Ecostream wird um vier Installationen erweitert. Nach der ersten Europatournee in 2008 liegt der Fokus nun noch stärker auf den architektonischen und inhaltlichen Kontexten. Dies führt uns zu modernen Neubauten in Brügge und Lyon, zu einem energie-autarken Milchbauernhof bei Aachen und zu jahrhundertealten...

1st prize - narrative short film

»In her ten-minute short film the young director Carina Neubohn gives insight into the complicated relationship between a young women with multiple sclerosis and her friend and roommate. Carina Neubohn stays very close to the protagonists but creates space for them and for the viewer. She looks at them very precisely and develops a complex...

A Sustainable Archive of Photovoltaics

Ecostream is a system provider of solar energy and is part of the dutch Econcern Group. Inititalising a visual archive, CHBP transfered the claim "A Sustainable energy Supply For Everyone" to their media environment by providing material which may be used in a variety of contexts, such as commercial, corporate movie, industrial film, trade fair stands or presentations. Last summer, Robin Baum travelled...

Sound Installation for Dornbracht Cultur Projects

The Dornbracht Culture Projects presents the first collection of Noises for Ritual Architecture produced by Carlo Peters. The Soundscapes reflect the relationship between space, material and movement through a ritual architecture designed by Mike Meiré. Noises for Ritual Architecture were published as 3-CD series and presented in Cologne, Milan, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf.

CHBP Created a Portrait of the Star Designer

He loves champagne, green and big bottles. Marc Newson is one of the most accomplished and influential designers of his generation. For Dom Pérignon he designed an ice bucket for the magnum bottle. The interview reflects his way of creating things and his favour for champagne. Only his objects are coloured in the black and white aesthetics of the film.

Moves, Gestures, Glances, Memories.

"I love a lot the beauty Tanja gives to the film. And her beauty is linked to this feeling of disappearance, the absence of a person, who left long time ago, or will leave in future, just because of time." Marc Comes staged...

The Portrait of a Woman on the Run

The video »Rosemarie« is something of a homage to the artist Rosemarie Trockel and circles around stamping, distance and decisions, love and work, serial production and fermentation. "Der Film »Rosemarie« ist eine Liebeserklärung an jene verschwenderische »Ver-Wendung« (Pierre Klossowski) von Energie, die die Filmkunst sein könnte, wenn sie sich, in Form von Überschreitungen der Information, des Wissens und der symbolischen Tauschwerte, als eine Ereignis-Maschine erfinden könnte" (Wilfried Dickhoff). Marc Comes (Writer/Director) received the »Prix Nicolas Feuillatte pour l´Art Contemporain 2004« for »Rosemarie«. Music by Carlo Peters.

Docuclip about the Introduction Rosé 1996

Supermodel Eva Herzigova and Karl Lagerfeld did the campaign for the 1996 Dom Pérignon Rosé. The launch of the Rosé was settled in a fancy Villa on Sunset Boulevard. The destillation of the evening combines the catwalk of the stars with the live concert of folk-rocker Devendra Banhart and band, enjoying their champagne.

Carsten Höller sucht das Glück

Glück heisst die erste große Einzelausstellung von Carsten Höller 1996 im Kölner Kunstverein, mit dem Direktor Udo Kittelmann. Neben einer Flugmaschine, Massagesessel und streichelzarten Delphinen zeigt Höller eine visuelle Glücksschleife der Erinnerung. »Anna« heisst das Video und die Tochter der Galeristen Schipper & Krome. Sie rennt im Kreis und wird in die Luft geworfen. Das abgetastete Super 8 Material montierten wir als Loop, der allerdings nie exakt die gleiche Bildfolge noch einmal zeigt. Ich schlage Georges Delerues musikalisches Titelthema aus Godards »Le Mepris« vor.