Above: excerpts from the Re-creations series-2019
1. Re-Attempt 2. Re-Kostnice 3. Re-Alhambra 4. Re-Bagatelle
During this nine-week field trip I travelled to a number of countries in Europe in order to recreate a series of short films in the site in which they were originally made. My works based on that research included a recreation of a film by Jan Švankmajer: Kostnice at the Sedlec Ossuary in Czech Republic. I also remade two films by Marie Menken: Arabesque for Kenneth Anger at the Alhambra in Spain, and Bagatelle for Willard Maas 1958 which Menken had filmed at the Palace of Versailles. While in Paris I also attempted to re-create Georges Perec’s observational text “An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris”. I developed these works into a film series called the “Re-creations”
Above: Re-Kostnice from the Re-creation series
based on the original film Kostnice by Jan Svankmajer 1970
Screen shots from the RE: Bagatelle diptych: on the left of each diptych is my recreation of Marie Menken's film "Bagatelle for Willard Maas" that I remade in the site in which it was originally made, at the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre. On the right of each diptych is the 'original' version that I filmed from Youtube on my computer.
Above: Re-Bagatelle from the Re-creation series
Screen shots from the RE: Bagatelle diptych: on the left of each diptych is my recreation of Marie Menken's film "Bagatelle for Willard Maas" that I remade in the site in which it was originally made, at the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre. On the right of each diptych is the 'original' version that I filmed from Youtube on my computer.
