Four Persons Standing
‘Four Persons Standing' is based on an appropriated image, which I altered slightly. It is one of a few works that I made that has sound. The monotonous sound comes from two seconds that I took from a 1980s television series, facilitating a transition between two scenes, with no particular dramatic outcome. I limited movement to the nervous grain of a still from a video. Therefore the projected picture is just a still, and the sound is also a still. But at any moment, the characters - two men and two women - could interrupt the composition and move on with their lives. The picture's elements are dynamically imprisoned in their own composedness. They are on the brink of action, yet they never do; but then again, they could. I tried to make a found picture - lost in a book - act like a photograph.
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- Released
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- Language
- No Language
- experimental
Release dates
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical (limited)Installation1 Jan 1999
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- When was Four Persons Standing released?
- Four Persons Standing was released on 1 January 1999.
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- Who directed Four Persons Standing?
- Four Persons Standing (1999) was directed by David Claerbout.
- How long is Four Persons Standing?
- Four Persons Standing runs for 5m.












