Her film is beautiful to watch - clever, well framed and sensitive to the architecture within it - and if you have an interest in Kiefer's work too, all the better.
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Sunday, 4 December 2011
Stillness/Movement: Sophie Fiennes
In "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow", Fiennes documents the work of Anselm Kiefer at his site in rural France. The structures she shows have an apocalyptic air and her sensitive filming techniques enhance this further. The opening sequence builds tension as it pans across the transformed, yet seemingly abandoned landscape before revealing sudden movement - and the reality, that someone is still there. There is a similar moment towards the end when she pans across the stillness again, until at the far left of the shot, smoke is seen blowing into the frame. The source of this smoke remains unseen but it suggests again that there is a presence.
Her film is beautiful to watch - clever, well framed and sensitive to the architecture within it - and if you have an interest in Kiefer's work too, all the better.
www.overyourcities.com
Her film is beautiful to watch - clever, well framed and sensitive to the architecture within it - and if you have an interest in Kiefer's work too, all the better.
www.overyourcities.com
