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...
Orig. Title
alferjewo
alferjewo
Year
2004
2004
Country
Austria
Austria
Duration
5 min 40 sec
5 min 40 sec