Time Smoking a Picture

In Time Smoking a Picture simple gestures and images a figure smoking a cigarette a frame within a frame unfold in time as elusive manifestations of reality and representation transformed by barely perceptible variations of shifting color and passages of light Raymond Bellour has written of Kuntzels achievement in representing the unrepresentable the spatial or temporal inbetween created by the disjunctionconjunction between mental representation and perception surface and depth past and present conscious and unconscious As the hero the author and original spectator establishes his presence crossing the room in both frames at once we are given the outline of what representation holds out to fiction the heros gaze into the window where he can see his life slipping past inside and outside