Nicky Coutts

 

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The Discovery of Slowness (An Attempt at Drowning and An Attempt at Disappearance)  2007
video, 26mn

 

Nicky Coutts

 

A video projection, The Discovery of Slowness (An Attempt at Drowning and An Attempt at Disappearance), is inspired by reading The Discovery of Slowness by German writer Sten Nadolny, a fictional account, rooted in some facts, of the life of John Franklin who died trying to find the North West Passage through the Arctic ice. In the video, a man, made of sand, appears very slowly, as being born from the waves: an ambiguous apparition enhanced by the film being reserved so that what has been swept away is in fact returning.