16 mm film projection, optical sound,
11 min 20 s
Technique is a 16 mm film that draws on a collection of hand-rendered architectural drawings for domestic spaces created by Kuimet’s mother, the architect Tiina Soans. These drawings are executed on semi-transparent paper, which allows them to be seen through when they are layered over each other, as they are in the film. This transparency echoes that of the 16mm film which passes through the projector in the exhibition space. The film’s close-up footage of Soans’ drawings is accompanied by a spoken text. This text is partly autobiographical, but also speculative and tangential to the film. Together, image and text meditate on the nature of vocation, labour and craftsmanship, as well as the passage of time and epochal change. The immersion in the text and planned spaces on the drawings is broken when the camera suddenly shows the film’s own making, the spaces and buildings around it.
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