Fragments of an Unfinished Cut
barbara oettinger
Schedule
2025 · 6 min · en
This short film proposes an exploration of the absurd as a poetic language, and of the everyday as a space filled with small mysteries to be discovered. Simple actions, when decontextualized, transform into gestures laden with contradictions: destruction and care, control and vulnerability, the intimate and the alien, the private and the public. Objects we know – a comb, a banana, a toaster – lose their usual function and take on new lives. A comb cuts a tomato and a banana becomes a stitched canvas. These actions, although absurd, reflect an underlying truth: the everyday world that is so familiar to us is full of strangeness if we look at it from another angle. Technology appears as an extension of the human, but also as something alien. A drone observes, cold and calculating, while exp
This short film has been selected for commission as part of the FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video 2025.