Playing Field

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Over the course of one year, this video series (22 parts) shows always the same section: a playing field with a climbing contraption, behind that a school and a residential block, as well as a couple of trees, recorded through a window with a fixed camera. The horizontal pathway together with the vertical trees and the left window frame form a raster. The movement of the window pane causes the reflection to wander, whereby the things move and the people, who at a direct view walk along the pathway, seem to go into the opposite direction and to disappear. Thus, astounding presumptions, synchronisms and repetitions are generated, dependent on the position of the reflecting window wing. The video sequences start and end with the images of the inner surface of the window wing, which upon opening and closing, in a close proximity to the lens, generate a broad black field.

Playing Field  Spielfeld
Series of 22 Video Works
Moscow 2009
Apple HDV / Quicktime Movie H.264 / 1920×1080 / 25p
Capture 65
Video Projection  / Exhibition View
galerie baer. Dresden 2010


Examples:

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 16 / Work 1 / March 2009
Mute. 21 min 50 sec. Loop

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 27 / Work 5 / March 2009
Mute. 23 min 31 sec. Loop

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 39 / Work 9 / May 2009
Mute. 21 min 14  sec. Loop

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 47 / Work 11 / May 2009
Mute. 21 min 45 sec. Loop

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 48 / Work 12 / August 2009
Mute. 25 min 27 sec. Loop

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 50 / Work 14  / September 2009
Mute. 27 min 15 sec. Loop

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 54 / Work 16 / September 2009
Mute. 26 min 39 sec. Loop

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 57  / Work 18 / October 2009
Mute. 22 min 55 sec. Loop

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 61  / Work 19 / November 2009
Mute. 19 min 56 sec. Loop

 

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Playing Field  Spielfeld
Capture 65  / Work 22 / November 2009
Mute. 26 min 6 sec. Loop