Video-reenactment and research by Lisa Stuckey into the 8mm & Super 8 film archive of Elisabeth S., 2015
Concept, Camera, Sound, Montage: Lisa Stuckey Video, 13min. In German, English subtitles. Speaker: İpek Hamzaoğlu
Assuming that the history of landscape and that of media technologies are intertwined, what happens to a landscape when framed through a different medium? Will its meaning change and is it possible to represent its temporality, or is it indifferent towards history?
In the selected family exposures shot on 8mm film in Austria of the 1930s and 1940s, landscape serves mainly as a backdrop. In Unclouded Blueness the originally mute footage is given a voice-over spoken in a foreign accent, referencing landscape descriptions by women writers during wartime. Fragments of the following books of poetry are assembled: Käthe Braun Prager: Die Mondwolke Paula Ludwig: Gedichte Erika Mitterer: Der Fürst der Welt
While the display of landscape derives from painting, film determines how long it is supposed to be watched and may break with iconographically charged views through contextualizing montage.
