Synopsis

Secret Life is the first from a three-part cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life. In Secret Life, a woman is trapped in an apartment that experiences a collapse of time. While time is perceived as linear, the space is a
clock machine that runs circular and repetitive. New durations come into the normal rhythm of life and the apartment suffers an explosion of activity. Without the certainty of time, the occupant of the apartment is unable to keep her location, and her mind neglects the organization of the experience, leaving her only with sensations. The thoughts escape from her and grow like plants out into the space around her, living, searching, overtaking her apartment, wild threatening her; then dying and decaying like animals.

Credits Secret Life

Woman Helga Wretman

Cinematography by Carlos Vasquez

Produced by Anamarie Michnevich
Production Design: Daniele Fermani
Art Department: Michelle Letelier
Set Construction: Thomas Maurer
                                  Charles Green

Post-Production
Director Visual Effects: Carlos Vasquez
Additional Cinematography: Daniele Fermani
Music: Hannes Strobl

Film to Video Transfer: Philipp Orgassa at
    

                               
Special Thanks to
Saskia Draxler
Hermann Nöring
Gabriel Soucheyre
Lies Declerck
Friederike Oberlin
Stuart Isto

For Jane Williams

Produced in cooperation with
European Media Art Festival
49074 Osnabrück / Germany
Videoformes
63002 Clermont Ferrand, Cedex 1 / France
Contour
B.2800 Mechelen / Belgium
COMA Gallery
D - 10117 Berlin