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International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia
ALL THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR (2010) 3:30 min.
Appropriating images, appropriating texts, appropriating sounds – has become an accepted method of artistic creation. One collects and recycles. It’s one very effective way toward discovering a hidden, perhaps profound relationship between objects that only become revealed when brought into contact with one another, conceptually fused, you could say. It’s the title which first reveals itself to me – a phrase caught in the web of my thoughts, a painted sign on a fencepost, a suggestive line torn from a page of a newspaper, an overheard remark. I could ruminate over the words of a title for days on end, wondering, Why have these words become revealed to me? The text in this videopoem was assembled from hundreds of scam e-mails I have been collecting over the years, messages representing the lies we are confronted with every day; yet the random phrases extracted from these passion-laden letters cannot help but contain unintentional glimpses of truth. In between mundane and altered reality lies that precious essence of life I see as poetry. The camera rotation performs the equivalence of “This Day” as the visual representation of the circularity of days. The original shoot was done in the city – but there were too many distracting details of buildings, windows, people and birds in motion to stand for “the world” – and replaced by a simple, featureless park setting. The soundtrack is layered with a percussive track added to the original sounds from the initial city shoot.
