Untitled (11-14 May 1998), 2001

Videotaped in the four camps in Poland, whose exclusive function for Nazi Germany was the manufacture of death, this four channel video (shown here one channel at a time) slowly drains itself of color and the ambient sound of birds singing to leave a set of black and white images and the (added) sound of film moving through a projector. While shot in the present, the footage recollects the archival imagery that has formed the collective memory of the Nazi genocide, despite the absence of the archival footage to which these specific images would refer.

Treblinka
Belzéc
Chelmno
Sobibor


Re unifications, 2001

Re unifications is a three channel video that was shot in Berlin. One channel was shot on the grounds of the Olympic Stadium in "West" Berlin, built for Hitler's 1936 Summer Games. When I was there, the stadium was in the midst of preparations to host a Rolling Stones concert. The other two channels were shot were shot in the Jewish Cemetery at Weißensee in "East" Berlin. This large urban cemetery survived both the Third Reich and the Soviet domination of East Germany. While largely untended, the cemetery remained intact.

* Shown here with two channels animated.