Offere

Digital Video, 5 minutes (still) Offere means to bring across, in the sense of an offering, or gift. In this case, the bringing across is an attempt to communicate with ancestors, to find their ghosts in a place they worked. To somehow bridge time, find a window. To leave an offering and hope that somehow it is accepted. In many cultures, ancestor rituals consist of an offering, often food and wine. The film transposes objects, rituals and cultural references to recreate an impossible scenario, an invented idea of history which combines fact and fantasy. In the second attempt to make this film, the artists used a 16mm camera to document the work, and as in the first attempt (using 8mm film), the film failed to print. There is a sense that ancestral ghosts cannot be put down on celluloid, only the impermanence, the unreality, incorporeality of digital video is allowable as a medium for capturing ghosts. This work is a collaboration with Rebecca Beinart.