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Karl Kels «Endless Projection Machine»
Karl Kels, «Endless Projection Machine», 1994
Photograph: Karl Kels | © Karl Kels
 


 
 

Categories: Film | Installation

Keywords: Apparatus | Object


Photograph: Karl Kels
 

 Karl Kels
«Endless Projection Machine»

Don't leave film projection up to the projector operators!
Karl Kels

In his 'Endless Projection Machine', equipped with an old cinema projector and an apparatus of endless loops that carry the film up and down, Karl Kels makes the presentation of the celluloid an integral component of a sculptural film installation. The archaic mechanism – the viewer can turn the machine on and off with a simple switch – points to a form of nostalgia, but also resistance, with which the younger generation of experimental filmmakers works toward a holistic artistic attitude or in against the progressive digitalization of our media society.

 

Rudolf Frieling