by Oliver Pietsch (2009)
Video, DVD, stereo, 14 min.
Oliver Pietsch’s videos are marked by a solid archival testimony to cinematic and audiovisual culture. From old films to more recent ones, from documentary to independent cinema through Hollywood block-busters, the artist plays around with fictional re-interpretations by a themed selection of chosen images. These images are accompanied by a remixed or alternative soundtrack, linked or not to the original fiction. This filmic “reshaping” immerses the spectator in a narrative of accumulated visuals, whose incomplete nature leaves the door open to personal identification and to emotions linked to the recognition and familiarity of the images.
In “TUNED”, portraits of people consuming drugs taken from film history are edited together in rapid succession. All appear radically isolated, their inward-looking eyes looking out from the screen appearing helpless and disorientated. Their trip alternates between giggling lust and panicked anxiety turning increasingly into blank horror. The paradox: In the sequence the crazed and overwrought figures once again build a community whose unifying core is the flight from the community and the search for the true self in itself. The film can here be understood as metonymy for western culture.
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