P88
Opening Thursday 10.02. 18:00-21:00
Annika Larsson vs. Florian Zeyfang Sunday 13.02. 12:30
daily 11:00-20:00
BLIND shows a group of blind football players during a game. Filmed at night, this exploration around issues of vision and blindness shows the players and the field in close up and in great detail. Images from different viewpoints succeed one another, but without offering a view of the whole. In the spectator, the film arouses an oppressive feeling or even a form of claustrophobia, not only because of the close ups but also the apparent strangeness of the environment in which the figures move about. Through iteration Larsson produces a kind of psychological slow motion, where the spectator gets lulled into a soporific state in which time is clearly flowing but also standing still. The video artist Annika Larsson is interested in incidental but meaningful gestures and rituals, in corporal-linguistic patterns of behavior that conceal hierarchical social power structures.
Annika Larsson, born 1972, is a Swedish artist, working mainly with film and video. Her works have been widely shown internationally, at institutions including Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona; Le Magasin, Grenoble; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg; ICA-Institute of Contemporary Art, London; ZKM,Karlsruhe; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; S.M.A.K., Gent and Musac, Lyon. She has participated in biennials such as 49th Venice Biennial, 8th Istanbul Biennial and 6th Shanghai Biennial among others. Larsson lives and works in Berlin.
Director, screenplay, Editor: Annika Larsson
Producer: Anna Linder, Annika Larsson
Cinematography: Sophie Maintigneux
Sound: Jan Alvermark
Music: Sean McBride
Still photography: Asa Franck
Project coordinator: Angela Anderson
Format: HD
Running time: 20 minutes, loop
The project is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH and Swedish Film Institute (Andra Lasmanis).
