Minute 48

 Minute 48 (by Helena Kunkel)

There are two levels of destruction and transience featured in this scene. One is the scenery of the burning house in the woods, the other is the film roll, the medium itself. I wanted to pick up on that and step in line, exploring this multilayered sense of transience and destruction, that truth of something slowly burning down and fading away. Content-wise it led me to connect to something „burning down“, to something which I once thought to be permanent now up in flames and soon enough gone. Literally, because of war or burning woods, or figuratively in form of relationships, a „loss which burns“ and hurts can run unbelievably deep — and yet anything, sooner or later, is transient. My chosen form of expression thus has to fit in as well, it could not be something permanent, captured in this video. That is why I chose a contemporary dance performance to express these feelings and their confrontation, which could only be seen once on the day of the presentation of Minute 48 and was never meant to be filmed. This video here therefore only carries traces of it through the music.