SEEING VIDEO DIFFERENTLY

Hanno Baethe and Zaki Omar started working together on video projects in 1992. Hanno has been working with the medium from its early years, experimenting with the possibilities of what was then in the 1970s "The New Media". Zaki, a journalist who had a desire to move into image making, learnt the ropes by working with Hanno on his projects. In 1995, they both collaborated under the name InterAct to produce the video footage for the Hypermedia Project "Berliner sehen" from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Foreign Languages & Literatures Department. It was their first encounter with the use of video in an interactive non-linear environment. It was the beginning of many exciting years experimenting with the "New Media" of the 1990s.