There were times when we had no use for words

2020

The artwork is a two-channel audiovisual installation. The visual imagery consists of digitally processed super 8 film, decelerating the moving image, and highlighting the cracks and burns of the hand-developed film by making algorithmically estimated movement from frame to frame. The imagery has 3 layers; crackles of the physical film have their own life and rhythm in the moving images while the moment that the film captures is moving in its own. The third layer is the still surface from where the moving images are projected. In its premiere at Gallerí Korpúlfsstadir in Reykjavik (12/2020), the work was projected to an unfinished concrete wall blending the material origins of the video to the cracks and impurities of the wall. The soundtrack of the artwork consists of field recordings, digital sound design and recordings of organs from Laugarneskirkja in Reykjavik and the island of Utö in Finland. The materiality of the film and its digital manipulation together make a fraction in the linearity of time. With the medium of moving image, it is relevant to ask the question: Is it possible to perceive stillness in the movement?