HYLO-VISION-PLUS. Version 2

The first moving image in Dietmar Brehm’s Hylo-Vision-Plus. Version 2 is still without sound. An upper body, the left hand rowing, exposing one breast, while on the right, the silhouette fibrillates in rays of light. Repetition and difference are identifying marks in several works by the filmmaker from Linz, and here, too: while the found-footage images from Trainspotting (1996) form a frenetic nocturnal round dance in the first part of this small series, this time the tempo seems curbed, the atmosphere subdued. The strike of a gong segues to a mask-like close-up of a face whose eyes seem to have been punched...