Heim

A sequence shot explores from attic to celler a large residence that for the time being is emptied out of its inhabitants Their habits are betrayed by a multitude of details as so many clues left for us to find scrutinize interpret or mark with our own groundless fears fears that keep growing as we descend into ordinary hell Our eyes cannot really grasp the cleverly mixed fixed and moving pictures and this technical uncertainty is the very source of our anxiety is it a mere villa were looking at a crime scene or a mausoleum of Austrian daily life The entire gamut of a parochial idyll in the provinces is laid bare in Claudia Larchers video animation in the form of photos and moving images assembled into a seemingly endless pan shot The audio track drones in the background awaking something uncomfortable and sinister Thomas Miessgang