Return Return

RETURN RETURN is a mashup of an audiotext work by Caroline Bergvall, ”VIA (48 Dante Translations)”, and a slowed-down version of the trailer to the feature-length fiction film SATURN RETURNS. 26 minutes long, it is comprised of only one digested minute of footage from the original film, accompanying the story’s three main performers: Tal Meiri, Chloe Griffin and Joshua Bogle. The secondary medium – the trailer – becomes the only source. Two texts appear on screen: One is a dialogue quote from the original film, and the other a quote from T.S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”.
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Israeli film artist Lior Shamriz conceived RETURN RETURN as a moving picture. This experimental film collage is the meeting of two contextually different pieces. The soundtrack is from Caroline Bergvall and the slowed down film extracts from Shamriz’s SATURN RETURNS. By working with these two different contexts, Shamriz forces the observer into an analysis that is founded in the story of the film: The conscious perception of single images. From a minute long film, Shamriz creates a 26 minute long rain of images that takes on its own poetic character with the help of the soundtrack.