Black Rain White Scars (2014) Lukas Marxt

The impenetrability underlines the twodimensionality of the images that develop from the interplay between a panoramic view and almost claustrophobic constriction. The vanishing point has shifted so far that all sense of perspective is literally absent. The most spectacular example of this is in a shot of gleaming, gray and coppercolored metal rods extending from or into the water, waves and foam raging around them. A machinelike gaze Vertovs camera eye creates an image like this, enables this kind of perception. It creates a world thats fragmentary, that repeats itself, in which things seem to be strangely animated. Everything vibrates, makes sounds, and comes alive, spawning a presence which the isolated men witnessing this can join seamlessly.