Christoph Janetzko
Lowlands
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Original format video
Year 2004-2012
Language(s) German
Artist(s) Christoph Jantezko
Subtitles English
Running time 123 min
Films
S1 (1985) 15'
VOM FLUSS – RIVER COLORS (1994) 60'
ARNOS TONLABOR (2010) 8'
SELF-PORTRAIT (2014) 42'
Description
Nearly all his films are reflections of the places where he lived or worked. (M = Manhattan; Fenster and Change = Brunswick; River Colors = Chao Phraya; Sisom = Bangkok. But On Ludlow In Blau = New York also belongs to this category). With some justification, they could therefore also be classified as alternative documentaries. "Alternative" in the sense of contemplative and poetic, like documents of an artificial reality, never determined by ideological views, but by the expressiveness of their visions and the logic of their sequential unfolding (*River Colors*, Poetry and Reggae…).
Janetzko prefers to dwell on surfaces, on the topography of things, which often leads to increasingly meditative visions. Meditative visions that can be experienced at different levels when watching his films (especially in Change).
To achieve these imagined surfaces, he has often had to test the limits of available technologies: from direct camera work (*Fenster*), through optical printing (*SN*), to digital editing of analog images (*Sisom*), and then back to chemistry (and adhesive tape) (*Axe*). He even, most likely, made the very first experimental film shot in RAW and 4K (*Arnos Tonlabor*).