re:cut | on photography in film
2017
Video, 15 min
Exhibitions
2017 Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2018 Kunstverein Pforzheim
2019 Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Existing film material is cut, reassembled and re-sequenced.
Fragments of films on photography are brought into a new temporal order.
They detach from their original context and form a continuous structure.
The work does not reconstruct film history.
It operates on gestures of photographing.
Repetition and variation produce relations between images.
Meaning does not stabilise.
It shifts across sequences.
The film unfolds as a montage of processes.
Photography appears not as a fixed medium, but as a set of operations.
Excerpt from a text by Manuela Lintl
By using already existing film sequences about photography and their restaging and reinterpretation through a “re:cut”, the video enters a grey area of quotation, (pirated) copy, and piracy. The editing of particular significant film sequences according to a choreography, that has been worked out and adapted to the film excerpts, creates a new artistic context.
In a meticulous, chronological sequence, the video is based on the sequence and processes that occur as soon as a person gets hold of a camera: from the moment of inserting the film, followed by looking through the viewfinder, to the second of releasing the shutter, and the subsequent film processing, viewing and using photographs, to the deliberate manipulation of images.
Exhibition views
Kunstverein Pforzheim
Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
Excerpt from re:cut