Cinema Sunset: PlayTime
PlayTime (1967) by Jacques Tati
+ the making of PlayTime
with an introduction by Laura d’Ors
Tuesday 7 July 19:30
ADA Rotterdam | Area for Debate and Art
Houtlaan 21
Studio 209
3016 DA Rotterdam
Kind of blurry online
Fernstrg launches kindofblurry.org
Photo Ana A. Fernández
‘Kind of blurry’ is the result of my fascination about fading and unsharpness. Blurriness for me is a very broad concept, since it refers both to physical conditions –such as lack of vision resulting from meteorological phenomena as fog– and to psychological aspects such as dementia. It is no coincidence that the English word ‘fog’ refers both to a meteorological phenomenon and to a mental state characterized by lethargy and confusion.
The thirst for scientific knowledge is the foundation of my project, it is fuelled by a love of observation and a deep curiosity about disciplines outside the artistic domain: it is a search for enlightenment through science. But, ‘Kind of blurry’ is above all dedicated to the grey zone, the possibility of multiple interpretations: it is an hommage to the blur itself.
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“[...] but though his studies had not gone far enough to be of much practical use,
they had fed his fancy and made him aware of huge cloudy meanings behind the daily face
of things.”
Edith Wharton,
‘Ethan Frome’