alferjewo

Thomas Steiner’s moving picture works refer to a cinematic axiom—that of the optical deception of the brain. The initial material for the video work ALFERJEWO—the perplexing title identifies a place that the filmmaker visited in Russia—are innumerable snapshots of ticket counters, train platforms, people in train compartments, and passing landscapes, some of which are analogue, and some digitally manipulated.
Lined up sequentially, these photographic stills, although not offering the illusion of a fluid movement process, taken as a whole are nonetheless still in movement: The abstract graphic qualities of the electronically manipulated images—real things are reinterpreted as black surfaces...

Orig. Title
alferjewo
Year
2004
Country
Austria
Duration
5 min 40 sec
Director
Thomas Steiner
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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