There are Pictures, because there are Walls – A Prologue

Eye and camera sweep a trailer home that is being disassembled piece by piece, thus making it ever more permeable. While the eye and camera move along surfaces, objects, and views, we hear a voice (that of Sasha Pirker), speaking about bed, doors, walls, a room, that is “entirely superfluous,” movement, and standstill. Basically, various types of spaces* are described—from a bed(room) as the only inalienable individual space, through to functionless space that “is good for nothing,” and which “does not have to refer to anything.”
In various sequences, one can observe how the sculptor Christian Ruschitzka and his...

Orig. Title
Es gibt Bilder, weil es Wände gibt - Ein Prolog
Year
2013
Country
Austria
Duration
10 min
Director
Sasha Pirker
Category
Documentary
Orig. Language
German
Subtitles
English
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