watch — film and video
holding, not
- measuring
duration: 8-12'
source format: 16mm
production format: 16mm
distribution: live performance
How does the body of the filmer measure reality? What can we (be)hold as artists while engaged in the slow and structured work of personal cinema?
My performance invites the viewer to contemplate the perspectives of walking, swinging, holding, pausing, cradling, measuring. Created collaboratively with whoever is around me, the performance expands on codes of cinema, cinematography, and the aesthetics of the “good image”. The image is neither good, nor beautiful - it just is.
The performance is accompanied by poetry written for the occasion, performed live. The work is part of my research at Vilnius Academy of Arts into the experience when personal-process cinema and industrial production meet. First developed within the Film Farm Oberhausen workshop, 2022 May, Oberhausen
Filmed, developed, printed, re-printed and performed by Miki Ambrózy
2022, 16mm
Stills
(c) Miki Ambrózy 2022