after these things, 2019, 16 min, HD video (with Dominika Kierzuel)
The brown-yellow water at the mouth of the thames river widens and splits off into the oceanic
cavern of the Thames esturary. Two Tree Island, an artifical island at the fringes of this mouth,
covered by barren scrub and marshed was reclaimed by the esturary in the 18th century.
Through a series of protracted long-takes, the dimensions of camera, landscape and the body are
inverted and merged in a face-off game formed through instruction and improvisation. The
camera is no longer a window or mirror but a portal; connecting an island to the landlocked
promised land of Jerusalem, a memorial for Czech Holocaust vitims, the dead as living,
the living as dead. A repetitive phrase from Gerald Murnane’s Inland (1988) claims that
every place is always more than one place.