Resonance

Pale Alpine scenery, trembling focus, plus a silence drowned out by rumbling and static. Distance and fragmentation determine the vibrational space of Resonance. Telephoto views of cloud-covered glaciers. Blurred edges of forest, a view of a dim valley. Or, in the opposite direction, television towers appear in the shimmering light of high Alpine horizons: in particular, the Felsenegg broadcasting tower, built in 1963 on the Albis mountain range southwest of Zurich. Abandoned by people, stripped of its TV transmission and airspace surveillance functions, the electromagnetic radio waves once received and transmitted here echo in Katharina Bayer’s short film, particularly...