Six Easy Pieces is the last part of the Secrets Trilogy; a three-part cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life and is preceded by Secret Life, 2008 (won the 2008 EMAF Festival Award at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, Germany) and Secret Machine, 2009 (3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2009, Russia)
The work is based on the book
“Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher”.
by Richard P. Feynman
and brings together the following foundations:
1) Film as the Seventh Art, "a superb conciliation of the Rhythms of Space (the Plastic Arts) and the Rhythms of Time (music, poetry and dance)", a synthesis of the ancient arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry and dance.
-Ricciotto Canudo
2) “Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
-Gottfried Leibniz
3) “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.”
-Bruce Nauman
Reynold Reynolds deconstructs film as the perfect synthesis of art and technology and the process of capturing, recording and bringing it back to life. The work connects art and science, focusing on space and time and romantically refers to an age when artists and scientists had similar concerns and were often one and the same person, as typified by Leonardo da Vinci. Philosophically and scientifically, the concept of time has been extensively discussed and investigated for more than twenty-five centuries, yet its real nature remains still unresolved; it has proven more mysterious and profound than life itself, but where the scholar fails, the artist dares tread.
Credits
Reynold Reynolds
Six Easy Pieces
Germany, 2010
Multi channel HD video installation transferred from 16 mm and photo stills
10 min
Produced by
Saskia Lutter, Pierre Düsing
Cinematography by- Carlos Vasquez
Production manager - Julia Mari Bernaus
Director Assistent - Moritz Uebele
Art director - Merle Vorwald
Lighting - Ben Mergelsberg
Costume designer - Janne Kummer
Assintants art director - Max Krutz, Susanne Steckel, Henrieke Naumann
Interns - Isa Saðlam, Rebecca Gomes-Ferenczi, Ewa Kniaziak Gazeta
Sound director and design - Martin Backes (Aconica)
Arduino programming - Rodrigo Frenk, Michael van Rosmalen
Documentation - Robin Thomson
starring-
Helga Wretman, Juliette Bonneviot, Francesca Pellanda, Sanela Hasanovic,
Pirnes Steante, Ana Bellido, Dave Krepfle, Agnes Lindström Bolmgren,
Charlotte Miller, Jo Siska, Stephan Rumphorst
"Film commissioned for the project Performing the Moving Image Art", Paz Guevara
produced in cooperation with Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania, Australia and Impakt - Utrecht - The Netherlands
