16mm film installation, 25 second loop, with frame certificate.

Austria 2017

In the tradition of the landscape film (notably the British filmmaker Chris Welsby), and with a nod to the final image of Michael Snow’s Wavelength (1967), Miggitsch creates a portrait of a place that is at once both still and moving. The close-up image of moving water – at once the River Thames and any water anywhere – is presented both as a twenty-five second loop and as individual frames to be sold and displayed as photographic objects. As each frame is sold, a black frame comes to replace it in the original loop, producing a work constantly in flux.

With Und ich blieb stehen., Miggitsch stages the relationship between film and photography, movement and stasis, whilst exploring the status of analog film as a physical artifact with multiple possibilities for circulation and gradual dispersal/dissolution. (Kim Knowles)

Susanne Miggitsch, born in 1986, lives and works in Vienna, Austria.