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DORF is the second film in a continuing series that concentrates on the grounds of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. It is informed by a practice that is rooted in contemporary visual art but which draws on documentary filmmaking strategies. The film points to the site a few months after the events of ’72. This was the transitional “ghost town” that existed before the more permanent residents moved in. The site is also shown at an unspecified but possibly contemporary time, when it is a place seemingly full of life. The film clips act as spacial and temporal coordinates that are assembled as a sequence of ordered pairs. Themes that interest me are evident, such as migration, residential space, and the absence of spectacle. A narrative is not explicitly dictated, instead it is allowed to be unpacked by the viewer. The persistence of material objects is brought into question.

Jamie Buckley (b.1980) is an Irish artist based in Munich. He completed an MFA in 2012 with First Class Honours at the University of Ulster, Belfast. In 2005 he completed a BA in Fine Art at the Limerick School of Art and Design with First Class Honours. His work was selected for “Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012” and was then shown as part of the Liverpool Biennial and at the ICA in London. His work was shown at Rencontres Internationales in Paris in December 2012 and in Berlin in June 2013. His work was selected for the Aesthetica Short Film Festival and longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize.