Messages is an exploration of the different ages of written culture -paper, earth, stone, sand and glass serve as supports for texts- in which Sherwin works with free association (his daughter Maya’s drawings with a Hindu picture alphabet). In Instants, like in Messages, the hand, water or wind link the senses with another page and a text prefigured by the rhythms of the film. The screen as notebook, the word as image: in The Great Art of Knowing, Gatten blurs the distinction between writing and drawing, printed and written word, combining scientific treatises, instruction manuals, letters, reflections of birds and shadows of words.
MESSAGES. Guy Sherwin.1981-84. 16mm. 30’. silente.
INSTANTS. Hannes Schüpbach. 2012. 16mm 16’. silente.
LA PLUIE (PROJET POUR UN TEXTE). Marcel Broodthaers, 1969, 16mm., 2’, silente.
THE GREAT ART OF KNOWING. David Gatten. 2004. 16mm 37’. silente.
TRT: 85 min
