Distance AB
2000, Video, 4'30"
Distance AB is a short narrative video based upon a text from Albert Einstein’s book, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory. Einstein when defining a methodology for a system of co-ordinates proposes that if a cloud is hovering over Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, that in order to measure its position in relation to the earth, we should erect a pole up to it.
In Distance AB the artist travelled to Potsdamer Platz to depict a man carrying out the act of raising a stick up to a cloud. Opening with scenes of Potsdamer Platz undergoing reconstruction, the film cuts to a man lying on the ground surveying the sky above him. As he lies there he raises a stick up to the sky. The stick appears to reach the cloud when seen from his point of view while lying on his back looking up at the cloud.
2000, Video, 4'30"
Distance AB is a short narrative video based upon a text from Albert Einstein’s book, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory. Einstein when defining a methodology for a system of co-ordinates proposes that if a cloud is hovering over Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, that in order to measure its position in relation to the earth, we should erect a pole up to it.
In Distance AB the artist travelled to Potsdamer Platz to depict a man carrying out the act of raising a stick up to a cloud. Opening with scenes of Potsdamer Platz undergoing reconstruction, the film cuts to a man lying on the ground surveying the sky above him. As he lies there he raises a stick up to the sky. The stick appears to reach the cloud when seen from his point of view while lying on his back looking up at the cloud.
