Tobias Putrih
Lost Cinema III (selection of five), 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
5 selected prints from the series of 40, 100 x 150 cm, 2001

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