Labores en curso
2o24, 29min, Super-8mm projection print, 18fps, 1.37:1, colour, magnetic soundstrip
A record of places as they are being made: construction sites,
artist studios, kitchens, a garden—spaces in which a process, a state of incompletion and transformation, occurs.
“It is never we who affirm or deny something of a thing; it is the thing itself that affirms or denies something of itself in us.”
—Spinoza
“It is never we who affirm or deny something of a thing; it is the thing itself that affirms or denies something of itself in us.”
—Spinoza
“[…] presented on Super 8, is a film about routine, practice, measurement, and the noticeable variation in each repetition. It’s a film of incredible rhythms and delicate cinematography that evoke visual humor. The filmmaker choreographs the camera hyperactively: it bobs up or swipes left like a palimpsest;
between every jump cut, there’s a lapse of time. Stories are only alluded to. Hands and bodies are being studied as they work, making bread, making bricks. Regularly, recurring static shots of the surrounding nature punctuate with quietness: a fuzzy horizon, a patch of sky through a construction site, birds, grass, shadows.” (Nicky Ni, cinefile.nfo)
