ALEXANDER HAHN

electronic media artist

Video

MOVING VAST AMOUNTS OF WATER TO A BARREN PLACE

(2004, 8:30’, SD video, stereo)


Time lapse observation of several sequential processes of nature - some causality. Computer animation and video, commissioned by Swiss Television, SF1 Sternstunde.


Moving Vast Amounts of Water to a Barren Place, a theme suggested by Novalis, conjectures a counterpart to Glenn H. Curtiss' historic flight of 1910: one of mental association where the Hudson Flyer takes to the air above a New York State of memory. The craft permeates matter, like water changing from vapor to liquid to solid, tunneling to the inner fire of memory's images, imagination and dream.


For the eponymous dual projection installation version see vimeo.com/2078322.