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Monday, October 12, 2020

Keren Cytter at Kunst Museum Winterthur





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"In a more recent video, Killing Time Machine, a bunch of friends are sitting around, eating Chinese takeout food, talking about a deceased parent, reading old letters, communing, and so on, but everything is very flat—the dialogue, the energy. There’s no emotion. I was interested in literally making a machine that kills time, in seeing how I could make a movie become something physical, like a machine. Watching it, you’re aware that you’re wasting your time—it tells you that in the title—but you keep watching it for some reason."
The limits of our connection to the power of video narrative tested.
Labels: Institution, Keren Cytter, Konrad Bitterli, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Lynn Kost, Switzerland, Winterthur
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