Frankendael 2001
digital film, unique HD software and an edition on DVD, duration 9 minutes
Frankendael 2001 is a project for which the artists documented nine locations in the historic
landscape park Frankendael, Watergraafsmeer in Amsterdam. A film has a duration of nine mintes and covers
exactly one year, from one January to the next. On a weekly basis, each of the scenes was repeatedly
photographed from the same position and at the same time of day, around noon. With custom developed software
each series of shots was edited into fluid transitions. Slow transformations and changes in season, that are
never directly perceptible in daily life, are perceptible on a sensory level. Not the individual images, but
the transformation process itself is the origin of the aesthetic experience. This is in contrast to the
classical landscape painting and photography, where a scene could only be displayed as a snapshot, often
idealized and/or romanticized.
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