(2007)
clip from single channel digital work,
full HD video, upright,
color, duration 2:53 (original: 9:30)

A moving reverences to famous painted
or sculptured masterpieces from the Fine Arts.

Here: "Ema - Akt auf der Treppe" by German
painter Gerhard Richter is reenacted, but w reversed
lighting and contrast; the woman coming down the
staircase is of black ethnicy, the staircase
is rather whitish. The movement shown
is almost inperceptably slow
(original work's speed: near 1% of realtime).
mdh

premiered 2008 at the XXIIIrd International
Black Cinema, Berlin.
audio: NASA, non-copyrighted material (from Cassini mission)