[Winner Swiss Competition Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival 2024] Can you feel your skin itching? How does it make you feel when you scratch? Who are you then and where? The everyday gesture of scratching makes us think our bodies in new and different ways. Scratching dis/connects us with ourselves, with other bodies, human and non-human, with … gestures of thought: scratch (with Alison Peirse) weiterlesen

I am moved by these film moments of people holding – themselves, each other, an object of importance. But there also had to be someone there holding a camera, holding a microphone, holding a lamp so that this moment could be captured. What could it mean to hold? For the context of and an extended … gestures of thought: hold weiterlesen

Eyes fluttering, a trembling hand, the blinking waves breaking on the shore – we will find series of shimmering close-ups like these constantly in Jean Epstein’s films. They all celebrate the fusion of human bodies with their surroundings, of gestures with thoughts, of time with space and all the elements of nature. This is what … gestures of thought: glance weiterlesen

The wire sings, the whole world begins to tremble, my skin as much as the telephone pole, the cells of my body as well as the electrons in the cable.

The English word „writing“ and the German word „reissen“ (ripping) are related. To write means to rip, to draw and drag, to sketch and carve. If I inspect closely the page on which I have written I will see that my letters have left a physical imprint as well, the writing carves and rips into … gestures of thought: inscription weiterlesen

What does it mean to swallow? I devour the outside, make it part of my body. Yet, at the same time I’m opening myself to what is not mine. The body becomes an open vessel, a channel, a container, a medium. Foreign signals run through my throat. They are swallowing me up while I swallow … gestures of thought: swallow weiterlesen