Moments Of My Mother

Digital Video – 1min35

The video was created in the centre of the lab in response to the impulse: Describe your mother visually.

The video shows different scenes of the Artist Researcher’s mother’s visit to Vienna. Things they saw together, experiences they shared, people they met together, music they listened to. It is a mixture of their own recordings and external material that tells the story of their emotional state. The sound level emphasises, counteracts and challenges the visual level. The images are assembled quickly and associatively. There is a lot of black around the images, unknown spaces.

‘The screaming of the trees… the poor things’

Which videos, which pictures in my mobile phone album do I associate with my mother?

When was the last time we visited each other?

How does such a visit typically go?

What language, what dialect do we speak?

What activities do we do during this visit?

Who do we meet? Who do we not meet?

What life do I show my mum? What life does she show me?