Materia Obscura

Germany

2009

105 Min

Color

None

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This work is based on some excerpts of the film Instabile Materie which I realized in 1995. Sorce material were handprocessed 16mm film stripes which I covered with chemicals. In this so called “chemograms” the used substances mostly salts became moulding shapes. Years later I digitized parts of the film frame by frame in high resolution and started with the computer to slow down the speed just to analyse the sequence of events. So arose a morphology of the film emulsion with the embeded substances and a bizarre, strange world full of magic revealed. —filmalchemist.de

Director

Jürgen Reble

Jürgen Reble (born 1956 in Düsseldorf). In the late 1970s and 80s he was a member of the film ensemble Schmelzdahin. Beginning in the 80s he began making his own work in film, performance and installation often rooted in manual processing of film footage using mechanic and chemical influences and reconstruction of the cinematographic apparatus. Since 1992 he works together with the sound artist Thomas Köner in the fields of film, installation and performance. His works have exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Auditorium of the Louvre, Paris; Filmmuseum Amsterdam; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. 1997 he has got a scholarship from the Kunstfond in Bonn. Reble lives and works in Bonn, Germany. —filmalchemist.de