The Unseen Seen

THE UNSEEN SEEN, Ginger und Fred (Ginger e Fred), 1985

The concept is to confront the viewer with the image of an object (filmrolls) and in doing so recall images from the spectator’s memory. By reading the movie title, I want to generate emotions and images from our memory.

Reiner Riedler vuole con questa serie di fotografie confrontare l’osservatore con l’oggetto osservato, in questo caso delle vecchie pellicole di film.

Leggendo il titolo del film contenuto nella pellicola l’osservatore è stimolato a ricordare parte di quel film e, in parte, a mettere in relazione i suoi ricordi con quello che vede nell’aspetto della pellicola fotografata.

Un esperimento un po’ campato per aria forse, ma il risultato è quanto meno esteticamente molto gradevole secondo me.

Through the act of collecting and selecting the film rolls I noticed analogies between the colour and the shape of the rolls, and the content of the movies.

Voi avete trovato somiglianze tra il film e la pellicola che lo ospita?

THE UNSEEN SEEN, Three Colors: Blue (orig. Trois Couleurs: Bleu), 1993 THE UNSEEN SEEN, The Godfather, 1972 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), 1930 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Marlene Dietrich, a conversation with dr. J. Robert oppenheimer THE UNSEEN SEEN, Bronenosets Potyomkin, 1925 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Wie ich ein Neger wurde, 1969/70 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Gespenster (Ghosts), 2005 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Freaks, 1932 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Alien, 1979 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Three Colors: Blue (orig. Trois Couleurs: Bleu), 1993 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Scarface, 1932 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Boarding School, Leidenschaftliche Blümchen (orig.title), 1978 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Citizen Kane, 1941 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Good Bye, Lenin!, 2003 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens, 1922 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Les Enfants Du Pardis (Kinder des Olymp), 1943/1945 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Batman und Robin (orig. The New Batman Adventures), 1997 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Emmanuelle, 1974 THE UNSEEN SEEN, The Great Dictator, 1940 THE UNSEEN SEEN, The General, 1926 THE UNSEEN SEEN, The Ghost of Frankenstein, 1942 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Alice in Wonderland, 1951 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Sissi, Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin (transl. The Fateful Years of an Empress), 1957 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Metropolis, 1925/1926 THE UNSEEN SEEN, King Kong, 1933 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Bambi, 1942 THE UNSEEN SEEN, Casablanca, 1942

Besides the nostalgic connotation concerning the movie itself, there is the nostalgia concerned with the loss of a tradition. This projcet also deals with this loss – “the dying of film“.

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