Blind Corners

2023 | Three-channel film installation

2:28 minutes, loop | Super8 scan to H264 | Mirror foil, plant-dyed silk with acrylic paint

Blind Corners, digitized Super8 on three different screens, shows a short fictional scene of three women looking at each other while cutting, eating or looking at apples.

Screenplay, Direction, Cinematography, Edit: Suzan Noesen
Cast: Tracy Heindrichs, Esther Koenig, Annick Meiers
AC & Gaffer: Sven Ulmerich
Film processing: Guy Bollendorf

The starting point for this installation was a research into the influence of the ‘rule’ of cinematic cutting, the 180-degree axis, on the representation of the perception of space by the members of a group. The installation’s screens are positioned in an additional space, placed at an angle in the exhibition space. The perspective lines of the different filmed viewpoints correspond to the lines of the ‘fictional’ space or those of the ‘real’ space.

The change of image to bronze color marks the characters’ awareness of an other’s gaze on themselves. A gaze that goes unnoticed is indicated by the change to the negative film image.

The points of view of the characters in the films remain ‘inside’ the shared space of the characters in the fictional situation; there is no outside viewing position, no master shot. The visitor In the installation cannot find an external observation position to the scene.

The title ‘Blind corners’ alludes to this external, practically ‘impossible’, non-human view of identity (or soul), a view not taken by others (humans) or oneself, according to the principle of the ‘Johari Window’.

The walls of the space within the space are made of mirrored film, they are transparent depending on the direction of the lighting, and they reflect or obscure the presence of visitors.

Funded by Ministère de la Culture Luxembourg