Atelier Impopulaire, 2013
(HD, 2 channels, col. Sound. 4.32)
Cinematography, Editing, Sound:
Atelier Impopulaire
These are amazing: each
Joining a neighbor, as though speech
Were a still performance.
Arranging by chance
To meet as far this morning
From the world as agreeing
With it, you and I
Are suddenly what the trees try
To tell us we are:
That their merely being there
Means something; that soon
We may touch, love, explain.
And glad not to have invented
Such comeliness, we are surrounded:
A silence already filled with noises,
A canvas on which emerges
A chorus of smiles, a winter morning.
Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,
Our days put on such reticence
These accents seem their own defense.
John Ashbery, Some Trees, 1956
May 2-June 3
St. Agnes
Alexandrinenstraße 118-121 Berlin
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