windows of D. starts with images of windows and curtains from inside a workers’ house in Hamtramck. The second chapter shows fences of a typical backside alley, followed by pictures of transit streets in the neighborhood. The film ends with portraits of abandoned workers’ houses in neighboring Detroit, where the windows are barricaded from the outside.

The sequence of pictures is interrupted by short clips of a second that show the editor’s hand putting the mounted slides in place on the light table.

On the soundtrack, the clicks of a carousel slide projector indicate the speed of the picture change. The initial correspondence of action between sound and image dissolves in the course of the film by the superimposition of different speeds of clicks on the audio track whereas the pace of the changing of the slides stays the same.

The photographs were taken during an artist residency in Hamtramck, MI in the summer of 2019.

Avanti is part of the ongoing series “Of light that does not occur like this in nature” (Vom Licht, das so in der Natur nicht vorkommt).

The series of night shots of the characteristic neon lights was taken at an Avanti gas station in Lower Austria.

Avanti is part of the ongoing series “Of light that does not occur like this in nature” (Vom Licht, das so in der Natur nicht vorkommt).

The series of night shots of the characteristic neon lights was taken at an Avanti gas station in Lower Austria.

windows of W. is based on travel notes by Maria Wuketits and images from the private slide collection of her husband Josef Wuketits which accidentally came into my possession in 2018.

From 1955 till 1990 the Wuketits family undertook numerous road trips in Austria and abroad, which they documented in detailed recordings in notebooks and on slide film.

All pictures in the short film windows of W. are reproductions from the original framed slides of the Wuketits collection. All titles and readings are translated citations from the original notebooks.