This video is actually based on a video-installation, existing of two large screens with six monitors positioned in between. It is a poetic ‘danse macabre’, which directs our gaze to a graveyard world, where the human body’s death was captured in volcanic ashes when the Vesuvio erupted near Pompei in the year 78. A frozen imprint of the catastrophe is memorized. The three elements which constitute the images of the installation (skeletons, Light, and a tree) have been recombined in this single channel work. The different worlds these image represent are related by the circular movement which seems to drive them, and by the light. The images do not run off fluently all the time, but falter, making the impression they give even more dramatic. This dramatic atmosphere is supported by strong effects of light and shadow in black and white or almost colourless shots, as well as by a kind of sacral music, which is enhanced by the whispering of unintelligible voices. The moods that are evoked here are the decisive elements; the video leaves the impression almost of hypnosis or meditation, in which everything works together: music, presentation, effects, colours, movements of the camera and the theme. It is a wake from which you cannot escape; a rhythm of thoughts in a still-life meditation.
– Susanne Geiser
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Camera assistant Gustav Gelderkuvs, Light Guy de Lancey, Music Antonio Fernandez Ros, voicemen Teatro Continuo Padova, Thanks to Greenpeace (Archiv), Production Fabrica / Rurora Fonda, Viki Merrick
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