Video Manual

Dalibor Martinis / Yugoslavia / 1978 / Czech Premiere / 1 min.

synopsis

The use of the word manual in the film’s title is a reference both to instruction manuals and to idea of doing things by hand. In the film, Martinis holds a camera on a tripod that is aimed at the floor, all the while trying to balance it in his hand. While the camera remains static, the “moving” floor creates a visual effect bordering on vertigo.

biography

Dalibor Martinis (1947) is a Croatian conceptual artist and professor emeritus at the University of Rijeka. His extensive body of multimedia works, some of which were made in collaboration with photographer/sculptor Sanja Iveković, has won awards at various prestigious film festivals.