Each communication medium is based on a certain system, an entity of codes that ensures that information is transmitted. In this work, the basic principles that determine the identity of film (image, Sound, Text) are separated from each other. This short video shows an empty black screen with nothing other than subtitles. Ziegler investigates the action of imagination and shows how this is put into action in the viewer. Using text and sound, this non-visual video work provides space for the viewer's fantasy, which evokes not the absence, but exactly the presence of image. Three film fragments have been deprived of their most characteristic aspect, namely the directly visual image. To be sure they still keep their original sound, but for the rest they are provided with descriptive texts that replace the lost images. Images are generated in the mind of the viewer which tries to create a true representation of what is going on in the film fragment. Ziegler seems to choose to 'kick' the complete image and thus provide a criticism of the visual excess of images which daily engulf us. These days film, in particular, has steadily less to do with (active) watching than with (passive) experiencing. Film is regularly criticized for only being interested in visual effects. It's not for nothing that there has been an expansion in the new cinematographic forms like virtual reality or other hyper realities, which are aimed at a more powerful image communication. In this image-less video, the fantasy of the viewer is stimulated, not by adding an n-th variation of images, but precisely by omitting them. The conditions for seeing images are present which makes further completion unnecessary. Images are already everywhere, and being everywhere, they are nowhere.
– Marieke van hal
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