KALEIDOSCOPE - The Office of Public Works
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Luxembourg • Lëtzebuerg<br />
Marc Scozzai<br />
<strong>The</strong> film shows a static shot <strong>of</strong> a building<br />
site containing moving cranes. As the film<br />
progresses, the picture breaks up, causing<br />
the cranes to appear and disappear on<br />
screen. Successive images <strong>of</strong> the scene,<br />
with and without cranes, appear completely<br />
genuine. Reality and illusion become more<br />
and more inextricably entwined. Just<br />
when the viewer thinks they see the “real”<br />
picture, the image subsides and gives way<br />
to another, equally realistic image – which<br />
then distorts and breaks up to form the next<br />
picture.<br />
Out <strong>of</strong> confusion a question emerges: Which<br />
image is the “real” picture? Is only one real –<br />
or several? Are they all real – or none?<br />
A human presence is implied by the cranes’<br />
activity. Also, the film has neither beginning<br />
nor end – it runs on a loop. Humankind<br />
has a constant need to impact on its<br />
environment, to change it. <strong>The</strong> action is<br />
continuously renewed as, without cease,<br />
man destroys, alters, transforms, reconstructs,<br />
demolishes.<br />
Born in 1980, Marc Scozzai graduated from<br />
the Superior National School <strong>of</strong> Arts in<br />
Nancy. He lives and works in Luxembourg<br />
and has been collaborating on various<br />
projects with his partner, Saskia Raux, since<br />
2003.<br />
Dëse Video weist ë fixen Bleck op ë Chantier<br />
op deem Kraanen sech beweegen. Wei<br />
d’Kraanen, baut d’Bild sech op an o<strong>of</strong> am<br />
Laaf vum Film. Dei eenzel BiIler déi esou<br />
noeneen entstinn, sinn all an sech koherent<br />
an stellen eenzel Meíglechkeeten duer. Waat<br />
ass wierkelech an waat net, ass schwéier ze<br />
soen. Deen Moment wou eppes wierkelech<br />
schengt ze sin, ännert sech d’Bild, an eng<br />
aaner Wierkelechkeet entsteet. Waat ass<br />
also dei «wierkelech» Wierkelechkeet? Waat<br />
ass daat «wierklecht» Bild? Gëtt et nëmmen<br />
eent, oder ginn et der e puer? Sinn së all<br />
«wierkelech» oder nët?<br />
D’Kraanen weisen op Mënschen hin. D’Video<br />
huet keen Ufank an keen Enn; sie dréint<br />
am Krees, ouni Enn. De Mënsch kann seng<br />
Emwelt nët matt Rou loosen; emmer muss<br />
ën eppes ännere goen. Och daat ouni<br />
Enn: futti maachen, upassen, emänneren,<br />
opbauen, emrappen.<br />
De Marc Scozzai, Joergang 1980, ass<br />
diploméiert fun der Ecole Nationale<br />
Supérieure d’Art de Nancy. Heen wunnt<br />
zu Lëtzëbuerg an schafft zesummen<br />
matt senger Partnerin Saskia Raux un<br />
verschiddene Projéen zenter 2003.<br />
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