The Act of Not Seeing with One's Own Eyes
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by Markus Maicher
AT, 2023, 8 min
I am a filmmaker. And a projectionist. Mostly I am a projectionist who
doesn’t have time to make films. I projected so many images that my body
got sick, severe chronic gastritis. I had to swallow a camera to see
what was wrong inside me. The images that got me sick are the images
that will help to make me well again. I did not make them, my body did.
Through its automatic functioning, its convulsions, it produced images
that you now see. Images, concrete and abstract, beautiful and
disgusting, almost like one of Stan Brakhage’s films. But also the
complete opposite. Not handmade but auto-poetic, not analog but the
newest digital technology, not square but very wide, no subject here, no
inner visions, just my inner self.