"SCAPE" by Kurt Hentschläger (AT/US)

Kurt Hentschläger's "SCAPE" (2007) is a contemplative work, a video-landscape in surround sound in which time is the subject. Time contracts only to ultimately expand. A bare-bones minimalist tree in black and white moves in and out of focus in a slow pan evoking the scrolling of a Zen bamboo ink drawing, as the focus of attention slowly shifts and dissolves, at the edge of our perception. "SCAPE" moves at a mesmerizing glacial tempo that only appears to fluctuate during its 23-minute duration. It is a phenomenological work, expressing the a-temporality that occurs during the process or perception - or consciousness - itself. © Kurt Hentschläger