Label: Re:Voir

これは大推薦！！1956年デュッセルドルフ生まれ、70年代後半から80年代までフィルム・グループSchmelzdahinのメンバーとして活動、1992年以降はBarooni、Die Stadt、Touch、Mille Plateauxなどに音盤を残すドイツの作家Thomas Konerと組みインスタレーションやパフォーマンスを行っている映像作家Jurgen Reble。氏の二つの代表作を纏めたRe:Voirからの二本組DVD。Thomas Konerの廃退的なサウンドがハマり過ぎている1992年のアブストラクトフィルム[Das Goldene Tor]、胎児のイメージを中心にどこか儀式的な雰囲気も漂わす1990年の[Passion]、両タイトル共かなり引き込まれます。





The basic idea is that it is impossible to fix film. Film is something, which is always in a state of flux...The images, ‘real’ in the beginning, gradually disintegrate and the gelatine layer, where the chemicals are embedded, dissolves. All that’s left in the end is the ‘raging of the elements’.

-Jürgen Reble

Jürgen Reble’s film works are marked by layers of residue, shifting abstract surfaces, chemical traces, scratches and blotches, as though a virus has infected the image, distorting its tone and colour, imbuing it with unusual textures and a strange aura. In these films destructive processes are the creative aesthetic agent. [...] A form of myopic mythopoeia, Das Goldene Tor confounds readings of interpretive “meaning”, however layered or subjective they could be; neither is it concerned with perceptual phenomena or visual processes. It is a self-contained metaphor, a self-actualising event through the experience of its passage. As it progresses its atmosphere becomes more intense, it is slower, it is hazily less distinct. Like the sympathetic layer of Thomas Koner’s soundtrack, it is “dark ambient”.

-Steven Ball



"PASSION is a personal film-journey in which Reble accompanies his unborn child through a ritual, following the seasons until his birth. Reble's unfamiliar chemistry generates slowly pulsating structures and colors. Micro- and macroscopic imagery build a near-abstract, hypnotic landscape -- an intimate perception of creation..."
Jurgen Reble, former member of the German filmmaking group "Schmelzdahin" (dissolved in 1989), focuses on exploring the film material through bacterial processes, weathering and chemical treatment during and after development.

"The basic idea is that it is impossible to fix film. Film is something which is always in a state of flux... The images, "real" in the beginning, gradually disintegrate and the gelatine layer -- where the chemicals are embedded -- dissolves. All that's left in the end is the 'raging of the elements'..."

PASSION (1989-1990) b/w & color, Super 8, 54min