Abstract

Playing around with an augmented reality, researching film viewing practices, and my obsession with the question of artificiality in the films of Douglas Sirk – all this coincided in this video essay in for me surprising and disturbing ways. It showed me how by obscuring my view onto cinema with artificial reality I could actually see things more clearly. Augmented Reality used: „Computer Generated Roots“ (2020) by Sara Rutz ( www.sararutz.ch ) Note on the sound design: When rendering this video my editing software produced disturbing sound glitches that were not audible while I was working on it. I actually have no clue what went wrong. But I like the effect. It seems that the unruly apparatus yet again wanted to draw my attention to something I don’t yet understand.