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Christoph Oertli

Come on into the continents

Vidéo | dv | couleur | 5:50 | Suisse | 2009

Outside of Luxor the eye moves in a slow circle. People are standing in the desert, alone or in groups. Tourists descend from the sky in a large red balloon. The camera?s perspective corresponds to the gaze of a foreigner having a look around. A couple of details sail past, without for all that rendering the situation as a whole perceptible. The eye wanders on across the surface of the desert. Urban settlements come into view. An arrival is summed up in one long, slow pan, a touchdown on a strange planet, recounted from a horizontal perspective only gradually closing the gap between itself and its object.

* Winterthur/Switzerland, lives and works in Basel/Switzerland and Brussels/Belgium education: HGK Zürich, Graphic design; Swiss Television Zürich, stage design; HGK Basel, audiovisual design. Author of videos, video installations, documentary videos.