ACCESS

 

Video, 9’17’’, 2012

 

 

EN / DE

 

The elevator doors open up like a curtain. Behind them is neither an opulent show nor a grand narrative. Instead, behind them are other, open elevator doors. When the doors slide open yet another time, they reveal a view of a curved staircase, an escalator, or an ordinary elevator setting: the interior of a strictly structured, rhythmic, aestheticized world. Yet, an exterior—and thus, possibly, an exit—cannot be seen in Anuk Miladinovićs video, access (2012).

Space is a construct, a composition. A setting. This is made obvious in the artist’s videos and installations. At the same time, the composed spaces seem like disturbing worlds, especially in the newer videos. You can descend into them, as if into the subconscious. They contain, however, no emotional depths in epic form; rather, what is revealed is a complete emptiness, which seems all the deeper. The observer is thrown back upon himself. Some fill this void with laughing, others with a sense of unease. Far from any clear moral or symbol, Miladinovićs videos present an emotionless world, which provides room for emotions—but they remain indistinct, teetering, a little stuck in the throat.

 

Greta Hoheisel

 

 

Cast

 

Jörg Besser

Ossy Boz

Thomas Glatz

Ruth Herzing

Felix Hörhager

Karsten Kaie

Milan Mihajlović

Torsten Mühlbach

Aurélien Reicher

Leif Riecker

Ullrich Wittemann

 

Director of Photography

Gaffer

Color Matching

Compositing

 

Jakob Wiessner

 

Sound

 

Joachim von Breitenstein

 

Costume

Assistant Director

Framing

 

Ruth Herzing

 

Makeup

 

Nikola Johannsen

 

Assistant Camera

 

Thomas Schiller

 

Electrician

 

Benedikt Haas

Jonas Dorscheid