HD-Video
23:48 min
2015
«[…] craving for narrative» is some kind of non-indexical essay film about temporality and the porosity of meaning. Using a desktop-like visual space, it is structured around a 23 second clip from the 1978 movie «Grease» starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. This short clip becomes the starting point for a sprawling narration. It’s about making sense of obsessions and what it is, that makes nostalgia so appealing. About pop music as a dispositive structuring reality and about white Adidas high top sneaker. It’s about dancing and hyper-intensity. About loops, the presence, families and the question if there’s some kind of post-ideological media-usage these days. And I guess somehow, this film is also about the internet.
Installation view ›A field guide to getting lost‹ Digital Art Center Taipei 2016. Photo by Xun Liu 劉遜.
Installation view ›Funny if true‹ Pet Projects, Perth 2016. The carpet is a work by Shannon Lyons. Photo by Dan Bourke.
The lovely HuM Collective recently did a book version of «[…] craving for narrative».
On the occasion of «[…] craving for narrative» being streamed on Vdrome, John Canciani did interview me about the video. You can click here to read it.