| . | Hanspeter Hofmann, Drill, 1999, 3'01". |
| . | In Drill the painter Hanspeter Hofmann blends images of surfers and their tumbles and brief excerpts from a cheap S&M porno film into a fast clip. Drill short-circuits two sub-cultures that involve extreme forms of behaviour. One of them is carried out under the open sky against the vast background of the sea, the other indoors and in concealment. Their protagonists (and the viewers) are drawn in by the promise of an absolute feeling of being alive, while they and the world melt into each other for a few seconds. Drill shows the search for an autonomous space where freedom is complete to a point of dissolution of the self. The same applies to abstract painting and its ambition for absolute autonomy. |
| . | Hanspeter Hofmann (b. 1960 in Mitlödi, Switzerland), lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. |