How to train the girls, 1987, 20 min.
The video was created as a result of artist's re-working of some video material he found in his home video collection. It presents a four-year-old girl who is being instructed on some aesthetic rites of self-creation by an elderly woman. The peculiar slowing down of the image carries this fragment of human existence beyond the moment when it was registered. The video presents the sculpting of character, created not in the present moment but in a particular delayed time - the phase of active imagination.
courtesy Raster Gallery / Warsaw (less info)