Snow Depot 666 (2023)
Single-channel 4K digital video, 4.1 surround sound. Duration: 22 min. Extract 1 min.
Snow Depot 666 (2023) embarks from a series of illustrated newspapers from the 1560s that depict how people in Germany and Switzerland witnessed and interpreted the appearance of Northern Lights, so called ‘sky fires’ on the morning of the 28th of December 1560. In the film, hand-colored wood block prints and accounts of the drastic weather changes in the 1560s - known as the beginning of the Little Ice Age – encounter a contemporary portrait of industrial production of winter landscape surrounding a glacier in a high Alpine skiing resort. Drawing on two distinct moments of apocalyptic visioning, Snow Depot 666 traces past and present dreams and nightmares of Alpine winter landscape.
On show as part of the Department of Art Postgraduate Degree Shows 20-25 July 2023 in Laurie Grove Baths Small Pool, Goldsmiths University of London.
Single-channel 4K digital video, 4.1 surround sound. Duration: 22 min. Extract 1 min.
Snow Depot 666 (2023) embarks from a series of illustrated newspapers from the 1560s that depict how people in Germany and Switzerland witnessed and interpreted the appearance of Northern Lights, so called ‘sky fires’ on the morning of the 28th of December 1560. In the film, hand-colored wood block prints and accounts of the drastic weather changes in the 1560s - known as the beginning of the Little Ice Age – encounter a contemporary portrait of industrial production of winter landscape surrounding a glacier in a high Alpine skiing resort. Drawing on two distinct moments of apocalyptic visioning, Snow Depot 666 traces past and present dreams and nightmares of Alpine winter landscape.
On show as part of the Department of Art Postgraduate Degree Shows 20-25 July 2023 in Laurie Grove Baths Small Pool, Goldsmiths University of London.
Max Bloching Snow Depot 666, 2023. Installation view at Goldsmiths University of London. Photo: Christian Kingo.
Max Bloching Snow Depot 666 (2023), single-channel 4K digital video, 4.1 surround sound. 22 min.
Max Bloching Snow Depot 666 (2023), single-channel 4K digital video, 4.1 surround sound. 22 min.
Max Bloching Snow Depot 666 (2023), single-channel 4K digital video, 4.1 surround sound. 22 min.
Max Bloching (b. 1994 Germany) is a filmmaker and field recordist based in London and Berlin. Max´s work is animated by an interest in the ways sound and silence shape human imagination and experience of reality. Max`s work has been shown at internationally at festivals such as Visions Du Reél, Mimesis Documentary Festival Colorado, Ethnografilm Paris, the Moscow International Festival for Visual Anthropology and RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film where he received the Willey Blackwell Student Film Prize. As a musician and field recordist Max has been collaborating with artist like James Richards, Tolia Astakhishvili, Tom Zimmer, Benedict Redgrove and Christian Stückl among others.
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what current is under the sea (2021)
Single-channel back projection installation, high definition 16:9, silk on glass, colour, stereo, duration: 17 min.
Notions of silence, emptiness or void, have been of interest for art and spiritual practitioners for hundreds of years as a portal into often unpredictable forms of presences. In my work I am interested in how humans shape and are shaped by experiences of silence. In a world where slowness becomes a movement of resistance to the order of our present, I am interested in creating environments of stillness that invite the listener to enter into quiet audio-visual landscapes. what current is under the sea embarks from a silent encounter with the American minimalist poet Robert Lax and travels into natures curious polyphony of movements. A sound and moving image poem in search for 'living stillness'.
First shown as part of the The Second Body group exhibition at APT Gallery, June 2021
Single-channel back projection installation, high definition 16:9, silk on glass, colour, stereo, duration: 17 min.
Notions of silence, emptiness or void, have been of interest for art and spiritual practitioners for hundreds of years as a portal into often unpredictable forms of presences. In my work I am interested in how humans shape and are shaped by experiences of silence. In a world where slowness becomes a movement of resistance to the order of our present, I am interested in creating environments of stillness that invite the listener to enter into quiet audio-visual landscapes. what current is under the sea embarks from a silent encounter with the American minimalist poet Robert Lax and travels into natures curious polyphony of movements. A sound and moving image poem in search for 'living stillness'.
First shown as part of the The Second Body group exhibition at APT Gallery, June 2021
Related exhibitions & events:
The Second Body Exhibition at A.P.T Gallery 17-20 June 2021
Online Screening: 19-30 June 2021
Online Panel Discussion: 19-June 2021, 2pm
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-25 July 2023
The Second Body Exhibition at A.P.T Gallery 17-20 June 2021
Online Screening: 19-30 June 2021
Online Panel Discussion: 19-June 2021, 2pm
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-25 July 2023