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Artist Statement for Agares Graber
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Graf Agares Colin Graber Sheffield von Graber was born in Winterswijk, Netherlands, on March 13, 1970. Another version indicates that he was born in Münster, Germany, on March 15, 1970.
Undoubtedly, his mother was the one who decided to call him Agares. Mary Sheffield Anderson was one of the most important experts on Demonology.
"However, little Agares seemed to have been planning a rebellion from his mother’s womb, since he surprised his parents not only because he was born two days before the day that had been scheduled for his birth, but also because he was born in the beautiful city of Winterswijk, where his family had a house. Due to unknown reasons, probably financial ones, Agares’ parents were not able to return to Germany for his birth as they had planned. The fact that Friedrich von Graber knew some ministers of the Heinemann administration made it possible to obtain the administrative exception and the amendment of the papers. On account of this early confusion with dates of birth since he turned his first year, Agares has birthday parties during three consecutive days. In other words, his birthday begins on the first hours of March, 13th and finishes on the last hours of March, 15th." *
In 1974, Agares' father gives him a camera as a birthday present. Immediately, Agares starts, in a self-taught way, an intensive training on taking photographs.
In April 1976, young Agares travels with his family to Buenos Aires. Agares' private education went on for some years, until he is sent to a boarding school in Patagonia. There, he receives maltreatment until he escapes on foot.
"In April, 1976, young Agares traveled with his family to Buenos Aires. What started as a journey for the sake of pleasure to an exotic country ended up in a four-year stay.
Konrad Stürzen, Agares’ not closely related uncle, unexpectedly and without even saying goodbye to his family decided to migrate to Argentina in 1945. After that, he became a questioned member of the family and was suspected of espionage during the war. When Agares’ parents arrived at Buenos Aires, they expected to hear some news from him, and were very sorry upon hearing the sad news.
Stürzen had changed his name and had adopted the name of John Sonwirtzgfeld.
His neighbors simply called him Don John Son. In the uninhabited Patagonia, he tried to go on doing the work he had been doing during the war: he tried to work as a mechanic. He did not succeed because he had no clients at all, since his few neighbors would only ride horses. Afterwards, he tried to make horseshoes, but he did not make it either due to the fact that there already were many persons doing that job. He then set up a shop where horseshoes were repaired. Some years thereafter, his connection to the German Reich was discovered and human rights activists cudgeled him to death." *
In 1979 he moves to London with his parents. There he meets the filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who introduces him into the cinematographic world.
At the age of fifteen, Graber travels to Japan. There, Muragawa Sensei accepts him as a disciple and Agares stays three years with him, learning the doctrine of bushido.
In 1989, he goes back to London and starts to travel through Europe.
"Thereafter, he went back to Germany, the land where he had spent his childhood. This time, he went to Berlin, which was still divided by the Wall. In West Germany, Agares bought a car to travel round the city. While he was driving by a street near the border with East Germany, he suddenly sneezed, which caused his glasses to fall down. As his blindness was instantaneous, he lost control of the car. After some useless maneuvers, he crashed against the Wall and some parts of it collapsed. Some people walking nearby immediately interpreted our driver’s message and started to wantonly destroy the wall, at first using their hands and then using some pickaxes and hammers. Some hours thereafter, the Berlin Wall had fallen. Agares took some photographs." *
Graber is currently residing in Buenos Aires, London or Vienna.
"During a conference, his audience dared him levitate. Graber turned back and left the ground for several centimeters. The audience was astonished. The room was filled of fearful whispers and a woman fainted, so there was another miracle. Thereafter, Graber tried to rejoin a paper note, which had been broken into pieces, by means of a blowing. He failed to do so, and was booed by the public.
Since then, he devotes his endeavors to filmmaking and photography." *
Agares Graber suffers a chronic anterior uveitis, a sight illness which prevents him from being in the daylight with no adequate protection. Due to this illness, he has to wear dark glasses to protect him from the daylight.
Many of his movies have been destroyed by himself. Some are kept in private collections, including Graber's collection.
Agares Graber's filmography:
Semen of Christ.
Paradigm of death.
The heavenly dog.
Porno monk.
Tra la la (The Lord appears in unexpected ways).
The inverted, the kings, and the inverted kings.
Love is bitterer as a Media Hora candy.
The long life of an unhappy arthropod.
"When we spoke for the first time, he was distant and respectful to me. His dark glasses did not allow me to see whether he was joking when he made extremely exaggerated statements as to his self- esteem. He explained that, due to his incomparable geniality, he had been the first to prove, some years ago, that the source of the deathly family insomnia was the 20 chromosome. He further explained that in some time the scientific researchers would discover that this illness, as well as the illness known as Gerstmann- Straussler- Scheinker, is transmitted by parents to their children by habits, and not by mere genetic, as it is believed. He later went on to say that eating skimmed yogurt
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