When I think about the material components of film, I think of 24 images lined up on a strip of film and fed through a projector by means of perforations and a transport mechanism. A light source projects rays through the translucent strip, rapidly projecting the images onto a screen and creating the illusion of movement.

   Now the context is dissolved, liquefied and redistributed. A translation takes place in which the material and immaterial components of film are transformed into a different state. A system is broken down into its components, transformed, and rearranged into another form, allowing for both a closer and a more distant view of the medium. Film is no longer experienced as a moving image, but appears in its sculptural dimension as a silent, seemingly motionless apparatus.

   It is an attempt to make film tangible and to approach questions such as What is film? or Where is film going?. The medium is not presented as a self-contained system, but as a subject in constant transformation. In an unpredictable process of becoming, new possibilities arise – like a drop of sugar that draws threads through the water and slowly begins to dissolve.

Photos: Jorit Aust, Luise Lutz