ANDRO WECUA "All fair in dreams and war"

Artist : Andro Wekua.  "All fair in dreams and war"

Wekua’s latest film All Is Fair in Dreams and War (2018). Running just over five minutes, the film unfolds before our eyes in the form of a central composition (or rather a Rorschach test). It is arranged around a central axis, a burning palm tree, which appears in the middle between 1 minute 54 and 3 minutes 14. It is a single (and the longest) uncut take, around which a series of shorter “before” and “after” sequences appear on the “left” and “right,” respectively. “Before” (or left), we see a moon, sky, seagulls, palm trees, cars, city, dance, nature, water. “After” (or right) shows a city, gambling, movement, water, sky, night, time, city, darkness. This triptych is held together and varied with a metallic soundscape by Berlin musician Jörg Hiller.