I always imagined a film as a queue of images, each waiting for their moment. Not as a timeline, but more as a spatial installation, saved in the mind, where one can always recall those moments gone by, if needed. As material I chose one of the most well-known or „classical“ movies of all times: Hitchcock's Psycho, and I tried to construct this situation. Using only 13 of the most essential sequences, I cut the main character out of the image. Her seeming absence paradoxically made her image more present, and more than that: it became the only way to see deeper into the film. In order to make a view through the filmic space possible, I applied the motion and scale of the character to entire looping layers. By removing the temporal aspect of the story, individual scenes can interact simultaneously, as in the spectator's mind, or as a group of actors in a dressing room.

Barbora Svarcova was born 1985 in Teplice, Czech Republic. Studies 2008 - Academy of Performing Arts, FAMU, Centre of Adiovisual Studies, Prague; 2005-2008 Charles University, Filosofical faculty, Department of Aesthetic, Prague. Exhibitions and festivals: 2010 - Fluidum Festival, Gallery K4, Prague (CZ) Impact Festival, Utrecht (NL) Gallery AMU, Prague (CZ) Landscapes of reading, Gallery Školská 28, solo exhibition, Prague (CZ) Europian Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (DE) 2009 Festival of Film Animation, Olomouc (CZ) Exhibition Cas Fortuit, Gallery AMU, Prague (CZ) International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava (CZ).