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Maria Vedder
THRESHOLD (SCHWELLE)
2006
Film/Installation
8:12 Min.
Music: Brian Eno und J. Peter Schwalm
Sound editing: Christian Obermaier
THRESHOLD is the name of the narrow ridge between two rooms; one steps over the threshold in order to enter a different place. It is a cipher of transition. In the video, one sees – filmed from a worm’s eye view through frosted glass – the moving feet of people hurrying forwards, without being able to see their bodies and without discovering their destination. Travellers with luggage move as if in a dream. Brian Eno’s and J. Peter Schwalm’s electronic music, especially done for this video, intensifies the unreal impression. The subject of the work is movement as such, and the transitory per se becomes an image that abandons the things of this world behind it, possibly even describing the migration of souls. This is less a matter of real space, more of mental pictorial- and audio-spaces that promote emotional perception.
Ursula Prinz