Label: Re:Voir

1976年オーストリアはグリースキルヒェン出身、リンツ芸術工科大学にて視覚芸術を学び、93年頃より実験フィルムの制作を開始した若手作家ジークフリート・フリューハウフ。オーストリアの実験フィルムレーベルIndexからも作品を発表している人物で、本作は2008~2020年までの12作品を纏めたフランスRe:VoirからのDVD。彼の友人が大量に保管していたという、19世紀後半の写真に用いられた古いガラス板のネガを使用。それをスキャンで取り込み映像作品として作り上げたアナログとデジタルの境界をいく非常に興味深い作風。素材はレトロながらも硬質な表現を主軸に作り上げたガッチガチのアブストラクトイメージ。大推薦。



In late 19th century photography, glass plates were used to capture the negative. Director Siegfried A. Fruhauf finds just such a plate among his friends’ storage equipment. In VINTAGE PRINT, he scans and illuminates the photograph anew, intertwines the analogue with the digital, traverses the Modern Age – from photography via film to the digital world. The resulting movement thereby opposes the tranquil meditation within the contemplation of the landscape. In the soundtrack, an almost chronological narrative develops, accompanying the picture in all of its disquietude, like a frame.
-Berlinale Film Festival

The right or 90-degree angle serves as a standard unit of order. Whether optimizing storage space, developing land or mapping the human body in ideal proportions, a grid serves as universal criteria. Squares stack into cubes; the pictorial surface is transformed into a relief in relation to a background of precise lines. In Siegfried A. Fruhauf ś FUDDY DUDDY, something resembling a big bang is seen, with an energy resulting from the struggle between order and chaos. This is a film of bending and rupture, in which the right angle carries off a magnificent Pyrrhic victory.
-Bert Rebhand