CINE-SCOPE

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  • Artist Alexander Gutke
  • Technical: Animation, Video-loop 1080p, Insallation,Silent Excerpt of the video installation Courtesy Alexander Gutke
  • Duration: 7’23´´
  • Year of production: 2008
  • Country: Sweden
Cine-scope shows an animation in which a piece of celluloid appears to be magnified on a quasi-microscopic level, making it so that the viewer seems to penetrate the lamina of the film strip and enter the film material itself. Combining actual scanned pieces of scratched film material, together with animated digital representations of chafes, dust and dirt, Cine-scope is an attempt to generate the optical sensation of passing through a sparsely-populated landscape of markings, blots and vertical shadows; while also suggesting an oneiric, trance-like experience.

Alexander Gutke

Born in 1971 in Kungälv, Sweden. Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. Alexander Gutke works within the conceptual and minimalist tradition. Analogue apparatuses such as cameras, film and slide projectors are some of the main components in his art practice. Gutke investigates these technical elements as objects and mechanical devices, and uses them as tools and objects in his works and narrative creating a visual illusionism and a poetic and mystical materialism. Through his works, the artist explores a whole host of issues, ranging from narrative self-reflexivity, measurement, space, light, shade, darkness and what can be best described as a metaphysical existentialism.