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Chairs Missing 2011
Bea De Visser Technical data: Original format: RED 4k Screening format: HDCam stereo/ Blu Ray Dolby 5.1/ digital file. Other formats are available. No dialogue, 18 minutes Exhibition format: HD digital file Excerpt of the film On request we can send you a code to watch the entire film. mail@anotherfilm.org Limited view Synopsis: A film around the subject of encounters in a semi closed public space, a swimming pool. Though series of encounters are suggested we never see one; the action has taken place off screen when we arrive at the place of suggested action. ‘Chairs Missing’ is a flow of repetitive patterns that boosts drama instead of bringing it. There is no additional music, no text, no dramatic story; just the building before its demolition. ... A man walks through the hallways past lockers and cubicles. A boy plays in one of the lockers. A girl walks into a dressing room, opens the door, but does not enter. A boy walks past the grandstand where a young woman stares into the water. A woman swims her baby to the edge of the pool. The building is filled with sounds: water, machinery, leaking outside noise like the sound of emptiness. And old man steps off the high dive ... We come to know anything about the people we 'follow' or meet. Everyone seems calm and happened to come by. It derives the film its quality as stylized documentary observation or film essay. Yet there is turmoil and tangible threat. Bea de Visser Bea de Visser (1957) is part of a generation of artists experimenting with the medium of video and exploring its possibilities. Since the nineties she is working on a cinematic oeuvre, which touches several genres: film, photography, painting and installation. Artist statement, project note: Bluntly: I want to tell a story without a story to tell ... What interests me is what you actually said. My strong inclination to the (dance / drama) performance in the film comes, I think from a background of music / sound performance and painting. I choose especially for the physical approach of performance and image directed drama . Interesting for me are musicality, rhythm, tone and timbre, sometimes cruel absurdity, perversion and the balance between the banal and the human spiritual identity. The grid of my work stems from interrogation of the visual logic in combination with a strictly visual poetry. My strategy emphasizes the importance of challenging our preconceptions of what film can and must touch. Contributors Chairs Missing
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