Helen A/B + das Meer

After her Gras A/B Sabine Marte once again investigates a construct of meaning; she dedicates herself in the video Helen A/B + the Sea to romantic genre conventions and clichés. The film begins with an image, shot from a computer monitor, of two people on a beach who alternately point at the horizon. A voice over (done by Marte) whispers doubts concerning whether the scene is real, citing the representation´s two-dimensional nature. A seagull gets ready to fly through the picture while the voice over gurgles and dies out.
Two-dimensionality, duality, (dual) relationships of body and voice, sound and...