French filmmaker Patrice Kirchhofer takes film back to its glowing physical materiality. His radical investigations originate in the moving picture machine itself, in the dialectical relationship between motion and standstill, emergence and disappearance. He has been experimenting with his optical and philosophical toys since the 1970s. Kirchhofer's work has been shaped by modern serial music; his films are powerful without aiming to overwhelm. The experimental series Chromaticité, Densité optique, Anorexie as well as his unfinished films and his involvement in the self-organisation of the 'other' cinema are an expression of a radical renunciation of all media and market machinations.

5 May 2008