| Im Treibhaus, 2006 |
| Video, 1 min. 12, looped Collection: Neuflize Vie The action takes place in the streets of Amman, Jordan, a quarrel breaks out in Abdali Square among the stalls... this is how one might be tempted to summarize this film, if it weren't for the superimposition of actions, scenes, and scales that make such an attempt totally futile. These identifiable landmarks are gradually blurred by a collage technique. One element stands out: the cart of a travelling merchant, with emblematic value, which is as much a part of the world of the fairground as of a small puppet theater. An overhanging camera movement gradually takes us away from this element. The characters that enter and leave the field introduce an even greater degree of confusion of scales. What is played out around this apparently "anodyne" playlet is more like an emergence, a creative imagination that springs from a collage of diverse elements that, taken in isolation, are capable of creating a fictional universe. In the cloud of smoke in which the characters sometimes melt, in the papers swept by the wind, are superimposed the first notes of the eponymous lieder of Wagner. So many elements that contribute to thwart our expectations and create an improbable fiction, a hallucination. |