Film, photography and video are Heike Baranowsky’s media of choice. At first sight, much of her work appears documentary but a second glance refutes this impression, revealing the suggestive power of Heike Baranowsky’s films which use technical manipulation to investigate the basic formal conditions of the cinema.
The way the camera itself works – with its image sections, its techniques of slowing down, zooming in, repeating and looping, mirroring in forward and backward modes and with its minute time delays in its use of motifs – becomes part of the structure of her work. With its annotated catalogue raisonné, this extensive tome provides a comprehensive survey of Heike Baranowsky’s oeuvre.