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2000 · 8 min

A quiet, hypnotic drift through painted images and muffled clinical intimacy, like eavesdropping on someone's uneasy thoughts.

Overview: The second part of a series of cinematic notes on everyday life. Here, Jochen Kuhn presents an intimate scene in a dark examination room where a man undergoes a medical procedure with a modern device, revealing images of his mind. This is part of Kuhn’s series on everyday social events. His work, characterized by a strong sense of intimacy and intellectual irony, uses the disappearing image technique to create mysterious stories. Kuhn’s films blend private and public images into a memory landscape, capturing the essence of waiting rooms where fear and hope coexist. He employs a 35 mm camera to over-paint images, leaving traces and scraps that carry forward, showcasing a thoughtful approach to film in a fast-paced editing era.
How it feels: Eerie, melancholic and satirical. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, isolation, identity, fate
Content: No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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