Und ich blieb stehen. (Thames, London)

Susanne Miggitsch

Susanne Miggitsch, Und ich blieb stehen (Thames, London)

16mm film installation, 25 second loop, with frame certificate.

Austria 2017

 

In the tradition of the landscape film (notably the British filmmaker Chris Welsby), and with a nod to the final image of Michael Snow’s Wavelength (1967), Miggitsch creates a portrait of a place that is at once both still and moving. The close-up image of moving water – at once the River Thames and any water anywhere – is presented both as a twenty-five second loop and as individual frames to be sold and displayed as photographic objects. As each frame is sold, a black frame comes to replace it in the original loop, producing a work constantly in flux.

With Und ich blieb stehen., Miggitsch stages the relationship between film and photography, movement and stasis, whilst exploring the status of analog film as a physical artifact with multiple possibilities for circulation and gradual dispersal/dissolution. (Kim Knowles)

 

Susanne Miggitsch, born in 1986, lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

 

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