XXVII/03 Filmmaker’s afternoon

Mutzenbecher films his immediate surroundings – his daughter in a flower dress, a glass of water, window bars, a plastic horse, and himself repeatedly walking out onto the balcony to smoke and – also sitting on the windowsill, also smoking. Carefully framed double exposures and corrections to the framing are exploratory movements – “Which view?” “Which image?” The repetition of sequences at different speeds broadens the scope of this search into the media: “How to show?”