What happens when artists adapt the aesthetics and narrative strategies of filmmakers? The exhibition “Encounters. Artistic Perspectives on Cinema” by the Goetz Collection in the Munich Theater Museum shows closeness and separation – and is also a wild ride through film history.
Flaming red, an unreal blue background, an obvious studio set – and then a coyote howls. The scenery in Tracey Moffatt’s film “Night Cries” is so incredibly artificial that you feel like you’re watching the wrong film for the entire 16 minutes. Moffatt’s work from 1989 seems to have been trained on early Hollywood Technicolor processes. But as if the technicians had added another three or four layers of color or turned up the contrast to the max during digitization.