alferjewo

Thomas Steiners moving picture works refer to a cinematic axiomthat of the optical deception of the brain. The initial material for the video work ALFERJEWOthe perplexing title identifies a place that the filmmaker visited in Russiaare 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 imagesreal things are reinterpreted as black surfaces...