Das Modell
Florian Gwinner
(Germany, 2006, video, 06:14)
Das Modell opens with a slow pan across blank white space, accompanied by ominous music, gradually revealing a meticulously constructed cardboard village. As the camera advances, the architecture accumulates in complexity, suggesting immersive scale and spatial depth. Yet a final shift in perspective discloses the illusion: the village is miniature, positioned on the floor beneath ordinary household objects such as a filing cabinet. This revelation reconfigures the viewer’s sense of scale and temporality, spatialising time itself. Like a gyre, perception turns back on itself, exposing how constructed space can contain, compress, and reorient temporal experience.
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