Gestures

A woman moves through a room; she begins to describe its qualities and the possibilities it offers in sign language: what it is made of, what it contains, its dimensions and what she does there. This room, which she is apparently quite familiar with, belongs to the neighborhood’s charitable organization and at the same time represents her own commitment to gain broad acceptance for sign language.
Flora Watzal’´s camera follows the woman’s gestures, but what we see has been extensively manipulated; the images seem to have been removed from the familiar spatial coordinates, set into independent motion and zoomed until...