BIRKENWALZER (BIRCH WALTZ)
12’40, video poetry, Switzerland/Ukraine, 2002

Montage of Walter Abaecherli, Switzerland.

Nominated for a prize of international festival VIPER in Basel (Switzerland)

An ode to the Ukrainian winter, whose coldness makes its presence felt harshly in »Birkenwalzer«: ice fishermen tugging perfunctorily at their fishing-lines, a swimmer diving into the sluggish, gloomy water, athletes at exercice machines under a frosty sky. The scenes, whose limited, confined movements are constantly in danger of freezing, are aligned on a rigid tile structure placed on two edges of the image.