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09.02.2010 - 02.05.2010 -- Toreinfahrt (première) - The massive apartment blocks that are so typical of Berlin, show little contact between inside and outside: small windows in thick walls. There is the square cavity of the corridor leading to the courtyard, often used for parking bikes, cars and household junk. Those 'tunnels' seem to be the only connection between public and private. The work 'Toreinfahrt' consists of successive slow movements of the camera from the public area of the street into the private area of many of those courtyards, ending with a close up of what is in the background.. The zoom seems to move towards a specific spot as if to attract our attention for an important detail. But this built up tension is not redeemed: we are constantly missing the point. This effect is intensified by the sounds that go with the images: sounds of human activity: voices, foot steps, closing car doors, starting engines: sounds of activities that are invisible. 16.02.2010 : 8 pm : Artist's talk : Mels van Zutphen talks about his work and shows inspirational works from: Bert Haanstra, Michael Snow, Guido v/d Werve, a.o. Entrance fee 5 € -- Mels van Zutphen's contribution Toreinfahrt is within the KIMM-project the most sculptural, most architectural one: Is it film or an installation? Its a collection of moving images so it should be film.....and yes, cinematographic effects are used by the artist: the zoom seems to bring us somewhere but in fact it does not, it ends somewhere in a void. In the meantime we have the feeling that the building stays in its place: wé are the ones that move. Looking at many of the same corridors of which only the content differs, we get the feeling that we are entering many different entrances of the same building, the building settles as a static piece of architecture in the space of Sub urban video lounge. |