ORDINANCE
Video, 6’28’’, 2014
EN / DE
The phenomena of space and time [...] represent the main subject matter of Anuk Miladinović in her work Ordinance. [...] Her video starts and ends in a crypt – the place where secrets are hiding, and where people meet at eye-level – with a young woman vacuuming the carpet.
In between these two (starting and ending) points, we see a series of shots of transit places – escalators or a two-story pedestrian and railway passage. The people that appear seem to quietly and devotedly follow some non-transparent choreographies. The air is full of something promising: the appearance of another person, the arrival of an event, a signal for an action. Atmospherically thick sequences alternate like freeze frames; instead of hard cuts, the artist uses cross fadings, which result in the overlapping of motifs. The action and the sound are reduced to a minimum.
Only the sounds of the surroundings can be heard, following the calm rhythm of the images, which looking backdrop-like and with their specific lighting are reminiscent of theatre stage. From time to time, a full speed train cuts through the continuous series of scenes and silence. In the following moment, the train multiplies itself and runs through a virtual space straight at the viewer. Ordinance represents a parable of time and space. Both phenomena are not simply presented in their mysteriousness – actually, this characteristic is even emphasized. Through the dislocation from a concrete space and time – the waiving of a concrete narration makes the perception of a time flow all but impossible – they both become even more conspicuous. The individual sequences all dissolve in simultaneity.
From: If it were not for time, I could live forever. If it were not for space, I could be everywhere.
Stefanie Böttcher
Cast
Jörg Besser
Ossy Boz
Andreas Daudt
Johannes Evers
Ruth Herzing
Rabieb al Khatib
Christoph Mandel
Conie Morarescu
Matthias Tesmar
Director of Photography
Gaffer
Color Matching
Clemens Krüger
Director of Photography
in Belgrade
Jakob Wiessner
Sound
Daniel Door
Costume
Assistant Director
Framing
Ruth Herzing
Makeup
Lydia Geißler
Assistant Camera
Patrick Thomas
Assistant Costume
Theresa Herzing
Conie Morarescu
Trainee
Maria von Prittwitz
Ling Zhang
Supported by
Stipendium für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt München