The street was like a drive-through cinema, the images came to life through her movement 


Notes on 'Cinema Cristal'
2019, 2 mini monitors, video, HD, b/w, silent, 9 photographs behind acrylic

Photos: Lisa Truttmann, Kamen Stoyanov

Exhibitions:
Big screens shatter easily, Oberösterreichicher Kunstverein, Linz, AT, 2019

See also:
Cinema Cristal

The starting point of this installation is an anecdote from the production of Cinema Cristal. Whilst spending time  on Laleh Zar Street, I saw a mother and daughter together. The daughter was pushing her mother along the street in a wheelchair, as if they were making a film together. Every window of every shop became a frame, and the street was like a kind of drive-through cinema.

This installation is an adaptation of Marlies Pöschl’s film Cinema Cristal, in which images from the film are questioned about their ‘state of light’. The written dialogues of the original film are shown as video on two mini monitors, while the images of Cinema Cristal ‘break off into individual photographs, presented behind acrylic glass blocks.