Moving Pictures
Kontinuum Movies
Michael Michlmayr’s videos, or better said, the “moving pictures” from the series KONTINUUM (Escalator III, TGV5320, Passage, Marathon, Stairway and Seaside) – as in his other photographic works – explore time and space, as well as the condensation of time and space. Quotidian scenes in urban space are filmed from one single position and are then assembled to “film-tableaux”. The same film sequence is multiplied and strung together. As a result of the synchronized and unsynchronized film sequences, a new stage of space-time is created.
In the video, Revisting past (2015/2016), Michael Michlmayr is concerned with the photographic image as a stimulant for subjective memory. He took negative strips from his archive of black-and-white images from 1981–2000 into his hands for a short time, turned them over, looked at them and photographed this act. These photographs were then edited together into a film, thus creating a picture-in-picture situation that takes the act of looking as its subject. In the background there are the regular clicks of a camera shutter release suggesting authenticity. Even very short visual stimulation is enough to prompt memories of the artist’s own life story, important persons, places and events, of previous art works and social and political events. For the viewer it remains an associative pictorial journey in which unequivocal visibility is denied because of the filmic re-contextualisation, the speed of the images, the superimpositions and turning of the strips as well as the lack of familiarity with the contents. It concerns engaging with seeing/not seeing, the structures of perception and the informational content of photographic images.
Petra Noll-Hammerstiel
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You can watch excerpts from some of the videos.
TRANCEPORT
extract of dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2022/23/ 57’ (Full Length: 3,11 min.)
© michael michlmayr 2022/23
TAKE OFF
dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2019
©michael michlmayr 2019
RECONVERSION
dv-16:9,bw,, 2019
©michael michlmayr 2019
HERE COMES THE SUN
dv-16:9,BW, 2019
©michael michlmayr 2019
PEDESTRIANS
dv-16:9,bw, sound, 2017
©michael michlmayr 2017
THÉATRO
dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2017
©michael michlmayr 2017
REVISITING PAST 1981 - 2000
dv-16:9,bw, sound, 2016
©michael michlmayr 2016
Blue Sky
30 ", dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2011/2017
© michael michlmayr
KONTINUUM Escalator III
3'20", dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2011
©michael michlmayr
KONTINUUM TGV 5213
4'10", dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2011
©michael michlmayr
KONTINUUM Passage
36", dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2010
©michael michlmayr
KONTINUUM Seaside
2' 56", dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2010
©michael michlmayr
KONTINUUM Stairway
1' 41", dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2011
©michael michlmayr
KONTINUUM Marathon
2' 13", dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2010
©michael michlmayr
Métropolitain
5'21", dv-16:9,colour, sound, 2014
©michael michlmayr
Autodestruktion III
10" loop, dv-16:9,colour, 2010
©michael michlmayr, karin seidner & elke papp
"The realism of photography creates confusion as to what is real" Susan Sontag