Abstractions (part 1+2)

Colour film in rapid montage at a speed of three or four frames per shot. Road traffic, a bus, packaging, a small child led by the hand. This is, as the title suggests, abstract because it is detached from any sequence of events. It is also abstract because it approaches a pure pattern, both in terms of the editing of the material – in the form of occasional splashes of colour and continuous perforation – and in terms of motif: film leader, traffic signs, a grid pattern of chain-link fence, blurred colours. And then there is the exchange value abstraction of the commodity economy: it also shows its colourful face in the form of logos. Recognisable, unmistakable, there is the logo of a cola brand, and at the end, that of a presumably fashionable product, perhaps something for film amateurs, advertised by an upside-down, sunglasses-wearing, pop-art man with a camera in hip striped trousers. Or is the narrow-gauge film camera in his hand just a hairdryer? In any case, the brand name is "More". After the "Ende" title, there is indeed more, namely another five seconds of splattered and perforated Abstraction Part 2. This part ends with an advertising leaflet dated 1967 for the self-adhesive film "d-c-fix". ('Film' can be so many things.) (Drehli Robnik)