Laura Waddington

Laura Waddington's video works are a connection between her literary texts and her vague world of images, which, slowed down, partially or entirely colored, sometimes blurred and mostly coarse-grained, make the question of a supposedly objective depictability of a reality seem obsolete.

The filmmaker deliberately pushes the boundaries of the photographic and the documentary when she transforms her travel images into an endless flow of seemingly enraptured street and house alignments and anonymous people and faces. By means of abstraction, she opens up the space for the beauty of the invisible in the visible and thus simultaneously addresses questions of origin and uprooting.

The poetically shaped commentary is always a first-person narrative of a lonely woman on a journey, who consciously chooses the existential state of being on the road and isolated as a way of experiencing the world and the self.

Program
Zone (USA 1995, Beta SP, b/w & colour, 8 Min.)
The Lost Days (F/GB 1999, Beta SP, colour, 47 Min.)
Cargo (NL 2001, Beta SP, colour, 29 Min.)

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