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Mosaik Mécanique - Norbert Pfaffenbichler (Austria, 2007, 35mm, 9:30 min)
The third part of Pfaffenbichler’s ‘Notes on Film’
series, which borrows its title from a combination of Fernand Leger’s Ballet
Mécanique and Peter Kubelka’s Mosaik in Vertrauen. All the shots of the
slapstick comedy A Film Johnnie (USA, 1914) are shown
simultaneously in a symmetrical grid, one after the other. Each scene, from one
cut to the next, from the first to the last frame, is looped. Spatialisation
takes the place of temporality, synchronism that of chronology. A polyrhythmic
kaleidoscope is produced as a result (reflected in Bernhard Lang’s music),
tearing the audience back and forth between an analytic way of seeing rhythmic
patterns and the impulse to (re)construct a plot.
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