An interview with
M. Kardinal Since the first time we have watched TSCHAIKA, we were absolutely stunned by the way you are able to manipulate old analog footage: in your hands, VHS footage obtain a peculiar painterly quality. It is not merely a matter of aesthetics: your VHS footage heavily distorted reveals the inner gestural nature of moving images. How did you develop your style? The way I look at moving images and work with them, has manifested itself in the years of intensive work with the medium of photography. While studying Art history and Fine Arts, I experimented excessively in the darkroom with
obsolete black-and-white material, and manipulated the positive image during and after the development. During my Master’s studies in Fine Arts, and as a master student of Arno Fischer I experimented with instant photography, a medium that per se is afflicted with the enchantment of transience. The technical imperfection and the transience of the Polaroid picture, has something highly subjective and authentic that reminds me of the way our perceptual apparatus works, and the ephemerality of human existence. Confronted with the transience of the image, dealing with time, in the process of production and in the result itself, suddenly became object