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- 2003 (Accumulation)
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Video
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Kobland's quiet, meditative video is a philosophical investigation, a travelogue of sorts, and, ultimately, a probing essay-film in the tradition of Aleksandr Sokorov or late Godard. Buildings and Grounds pairs lingering, beautifully framed shots of urban scenes, industrial installations, deserts, and other evocative landscapes with a series of fragmentary ruminations drawn from film luminaries such as Fassbinder, Fellini, Bergman and Tarkovsky. Presented as a unified diaristic accompaniment to the image, the text comes to us both as English-language 'subtitles' and, simultaneously, as voice-off appropriated from the original films. Floating over an image track virtually evacuated of all human form or movement, Kobland's questions and digressions call up a beautiful and melancholy world.
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Press: Yes; Catalogue: Yes; Itinerancies: No; Online archive: No; Television: No
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English
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Llengua: Inglés. Països: United States of America
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2005: Resistencias - Archivo resistencias
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Proyecciones: 1 (2005) — Resistencias
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- Ken Kobland (Accumulator)
- Ken Kobland (Subject)
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Latin