Tobias Putrih
Lost Cinema III, 2001
We are looking at the beginning of a nearly packed, simple,
and at times even comforting story. What is comforting is the infinite
flat surface of the cardboard desert, which surrounds a small cardboard
hill. This is the scene where our principle characters have found themselves
and they have indeed chosen a pleasant place. Next to the hill there grows
a cardboard tree and not very far away sits a cardboard truck with a smooth,
mirror surfaced silver capsule.
I would like to ask you not to try to understand the meaning of the photographs.
They were made as a starting point of an emerging electronic movie. They
are an assay to introduce the plot and the scene, just a tiny step towards
the making the cardboard world and its actors alive. The actors are not
professionals, they are my friends whom I asked to pose in front of Robert’s
camera one day. The guy in the dark sweater is Žiga, a painter and a multimedia
artist. It seemed logical to include him, since he and I did an exhibition
together at the Škuc Gallery last year, which was the outset of this project.
The guy in the light colored sweater is Luka, a DJ who is going to make
the soundtrack of the movie, and electronic noise the source of which
the characters will try to find. The girl is Dunja, a young art historian
and a curator. She lives together with Luka.
In my cardboard world, I wanted to bring together people who know one
another really well in the real world. (T.P.)
Lost Cinema III
40 photographs, 2 storyboards, 10 x 15 cm, 2001