"mission impossible 1862" is an interactive 4 channel video installation about the life of the German Missionar Jakob Friedrich Ziegler, who moved in the mid-19th Century from Dagersheim near Stuttgart to Dharwar in Karnataka, India.
 
"My family found well over 700 diary pages of an Itinerary of my great great grandfather in the archives of the "Basel Mission Church" with lots of drawings and photos. I continued the diary of a German-Indian encounter of the 19th Century with my own video diary in India of 2010.
 
On a table with interactive Objects, the user selects with moving the objects various topics of the interactive video diary: about the travelling, health, encounters etc. The screen architecture of 4 screens, surrounding the viewer, creates a place or a stage, where the viewer is virtually dipping into the crowds on a public place in india.
 
Chris Ziegler