Video, no sound, 6’32
The work 2017-03-02 consists of a few seconds of a TV report, slowed down 100 times.
From the middle of 2016 on, I increasingly used selected, only a few seconds long film sequences – often from current news broadcasts – as a starting point. I noticed that the picture reports almost exclusively consist of a quick sequence of extremely short clips, which are hardly consciously noticed by the viewer in their relevance. These successive spots result in a melody whose individual notes are no longer recorded independently.
By isolating very short film clips, slowing them down extremely (up to 100 times) and deliberately blurring them, I try to extract their individual content in its visual essence from these short film snippets. The results are soundless, silent …
Through processing, they acquire their own aesthetic quality and stand for themselves, regardless of their original context.
-Christine Wassermann