Tropes, Stencils, Remainders

2021 | VIDEO INSTALLATION | PRORES | 00:03:57 | LOOP

The video is structured around repeated recordings of hands searching for a stone to fit into a wall. These vignettes of gestures remove these bodily movements from their context and gestic signification. Considered to be the basic building blocks of human communication, these often overlooked, elusive details in the realm of body language are deconstructed  to reinforce their communicative, reflexive, unconscious and explanatory quality and express the tension between the individual and the collective.

Concept, Director, Editing Suzan Noesen

Cinematograpy Elisa Pietrangelo, Suzan Noesen, in collaboration with Alina Faber, Hannah Grevis, Jane Hobbs

Grading and Masking Pascal Oberlin