Matters of Practices/Actions/Doings: work by Kerstin Schroedinger
Kerstin Schroedinger in person
presented by Light Field
Thursday, April 13, 2017 @ 8pm
Artists' Television Access (992 Valencia Street, SF, CA)
The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough
Peter Rose
1981 / 33 minutes / USA / 16mm / sound
A powerfully formal, analytic inquiry into the nature of vision and cinema… painfully beautiful images of mysterious events and things that split, multiply, migrate and quiver with a hallucinatory vibrance… a rich fabric interlacing the metaphysical with the ironical.”
-Sally Banes, The Village Voice
Fugue
Kerstin Schroedinger
2015 / 8 minutes / Germany/Canada / 16mm / sound
Fugue is a formal and physical experiment in order to understand the relationship between image, sound, and movement. The movements and the setting are informed by motion studies that were conducted and filmed at the beginning of the 20th century with the aim to use filmmaking for analyzing motions of manual mechanized labor as well as concepts of biomechanics that elaborate the relation between body and mind as a form of actor’s training. In the film, the movements that are recorded are also printed on the part of the film strip that is read as optical sound by the light sensitive sensor of the projector. What you hear is what you see. The image recurs as movement and the movement recurs as sound.
-KS
Matters of Practices/Actions/Doings
Kerstin Schroedinger
2016 / 25 minutes / performance
Through an exploration of movement and sound, rhythm and physicality in the material film, I examine the relation between sound and physicality and sound and the body of film. I analyze the technical procedure of movement of film and movement of the body, and the links between those sounds and movements in order to understand both the actual and active part of movement as a component of the film material as well as the consequences the material has for social and physical bodies.
-KS