Revolution der Augen

Too many, too fast and too loud images that torpedo our perception and set our brains on fire. Pezold creates a counter-concept to the techno madness that bombards us via the television screen and mobile phone screens: she prescribes ‘LOOK-PAUSES’, silence is the trump card. She writes her cinematic manifesto on improving the quality of the gaze with reduced forms, line drawings and movements as well as animations, video sculptures and body images from her early films and artistic works. In a reflection on the dispositives of the visual, these are exposed, concealed, fragmented, brushed over with black paint or masked with sliced cheese. As a pioneer of a new, intense way of seeing, Pezold uses minimalist physical sign language to demonstrate how perception works, how the gaze and with it the world changes: ‘How did we see? How do we see? How will we see?’ (Michelle Koch)

Photo: Austrian Film Museum