On Its own Ruins
13:30 min, DV video, analog film transferred to HD video, color, sound, 2025.
Through the horizontal movement of the image, we are reminded of linear mechanical time and how it shapes our lives and affects our relationship to the present as well as to memory. The film becomes a representation of time both as a linear thread and as a web of intertwined events that cannot be clearly separated from each other, moving forward through retakes, fast-forwards and rewinds, double exposures, and repetitions. A snake winding its way over a bombed-out city becomes an image of how we never get past certain moments in history, which—like the film’s images—is simultaneously written and dissolved.
