This film is a “making of” for young Slovenian artist Miha Štrukelj’s exhibition at the Venice Biennale, one of the main intersections of contemporary art. The film crew first accompanied the artist to New York, where he searched for urban motifs for his Venetian exhibition. Then they followed him to Venice, where Štrukelj’s work took on its final form.
The film does not merely document, however. It raises the question of how to separate a city from its image. It watches how the image of a world metropolis is reflected in a faded capital of centuries past. It observes how, in a city that heaps up its art, no one can avoid an endless quest for the reality of images – neither those who create or present art, nor those who come to visit these art images, to watch them, to photograph and document them. The film that emerges interferes in these processes of reflection and plays with them. To the painter’s reflection on cities it adds yet another mirror, another reflector, another interference. Is the film still a document, or is it becoming an experiment?
