JOAKIM PUSENIUS

1984 | Lahti | time and space

Cinematic mechanisms provide a framework for an alternative reading of film history. The storyline, protagonists and their aspirations then become subordinate to what the eye of the camera chooses to see and feel at any given moment. The history of film thus unfolds as the history of the lives, thoughts and feelings it has constructed. To a certain extent, it is inconsequential what the film is about. We must instead ask what it does, what its limits are, and, above all, where it can take us. If audiovisual culture is to be taken seriously, we must ask ourselves what kind of image of tomorrow it constructs for us, what it becomes inside us, what thoughts it thinks within us.  

Allegory of the Cave | 2014