Respola
Marc Comes
RES POLA is a metaportrait starring the artist Pola Sieverding and her work. Res Pola leads through a world full of signs, inspirations and references, meditating on concept, desire and value creation....
The collaboration of filmmaker Marc Comes & the protagonist is a homage to the intentional, the artificial, the sovereignty of artistic authorship, as a decided counter-position to psychologising portraits.
An adventurous red glove, an independent sound level and the hermaphroditic cryptocurrency «Oysters» serve as central motives.
Respola
Marc Comes
RES POLA is a metaportrait starring the artist Pola Sieverding and her work. Res Pola leads through a world full of signs, inspirations and references, meditating on concept, desire and value creation....
The collaboration of filmmaker Marc Comes & the protagonist is a homage to the intentional, the artificial, the sovereignty of artistic authorship, as a decided counter-position to psychologising portraits.
An adventurous red glove, an independent sound level and the hermaphroditic cryptocurrency «Oysters» serve as central motives.
SYNOPSIS :
Marc Comes (*1965) is a German director of film & photography.
Trained as a photographer and socialised in the Cologne art scene of the 90s, Marc developed his interest in film through collaborations with artists (Rosemarie Trockel, Carsten Höller, Marcel Odenbach) and expansion into the field of commercials and feature films (Jan Schomburg, Sandra Hüller, Maria Schrader).
In his own artistic and award-winning short films (Maria, Jivan, Rosemarie), Marc developed his photo-based film language, which composes intensities with more of an essayistic eye and subverts expectations of common narratives without abandoning the means of suspense.
«A film is a photo album on speed, even the arrested image breathes 24 times a second, that’s 24 individual memories in one movement, past and present in the same moment. How long will this moment last? For me, this is the most important difference and the self-liberation from a printed photographic work - to frame, but not to fix».