Corridors (No.2)
Flure (No.2)
Tessa Knapp
Germany | 2005 | 5mins | Beta | Colour
Footage of thirty corridors in a building is arranged in a movement that continually rises and falls. The artist has lived in one of these dwellings and entered into the private but similar spaces of her twenty-nine neighbours before she moved out of the building.
Black Sun
Gary Tarn
England | 2005 | 70mins | Beta | Colour
Hugues de Montalembert had hardly met a blind person when suddenly, violently, he became one. In 1978, the French painter and filmmaker was viciously assaulted in his New York home by two intruders. Almost immediately he could feel his sight fading and he awoke in hospital, completely blind.
He was forced to accept that he would probably never see again. Drawing on half-a-lifetime of visual stimulation, he found that his brain would create its own images. He came to take this alternative reality for granted, and would sometimes be unable to distinguish memories from imagination.
