"Film without film" is the title of a series of chain-like wooden and plastic objects of different lengths and sizes which take their individual structure and color patterns from the patterns and scenes of experimental films from the 1960s and 70s that are in the Arsenal archive. They act like proxies of the films, there is recognition. In the exhibition, they lie around randomly, like sleeping animals. They can be observed and compared; people can imagine what's going on with them. In principle, they could also be deconstructed, carried around, combined and if one so wanted one could build new objects out of them, give them new names, new imaginary films whose idea would be once again be collected at another place, archived, attended to, described, sold, given away, lent... (KW)
