Gina Czarnecki & Ulf Langheinrich - Spintex
This film is a first collaboration between Ulf Langheinrich and Gina Czarnecki, filmed at an open-air night club and other locations in the Ashanti region of Ghana, where Ulf Langheinrich lives. Spintex is based on a real-time transition from day to night.
In Accra, on the Equator, the transformation from bright sunlight into red, into blue, into the deepest black night lasts only fifteen minutes all year round. On Spintex Road, the air is dusty and humid, loaded with scent and stench. At the dance in an old roofless shell by the beach, throbbing masses are engulfed in trance. The pulsing crowd forms one motion, one being; a rhythmic, sexual and elemental force as brutal as the cycles of the natural world around it.
The artists use processes of electronic recording, reproduction and disintegration to give the film rich digital surfaces. The images appear to dissolve within the noise and pixels of these surfaces, but emerge to striking effect before becoming highly textured again. The flickering pulse underlying these transformations is resounding, deep, immersive and total.
Gina Czarnecki is a British artist whose films and installations are informed by human relationships to image, disease, evolution, genetic research and by advanced technologies of image production. Through editing sound and image at a micro–level, using bespoke effects
and processes, the artist constructs vivid, highly aesthetic spaces.
Czarnecki is represented by Forma. Ulf Langheinrich is an Austrian artist who creates powerful audiovisual installations, films and performances.
Characterised by an interest in abstraction, Langheinrich’s granular manipulations of audio and visual material are informed by his background in fine art painting, early audio experiments, design of soundscapes for film/video projects and concerts, and work as part of Granular Synthesis, the media art group that he co-founded.
Screenings
26 September 2009 | 25 FPS - International Festival of Experimental Film and Video | Zagreb, HR
11 – 15 February 2009 | The National Review of Live Art | The Arches, Glasgow, UK
Produced by Forma. Funded by Capture. Ulf Langheinrich courtesy of Epidemic
