Taking its title from the sea nymphs in Homer’s Odyssey – the treacherous spirits whose sweet voices lured sailors to their death upon the rocks – Sirens presents four hallucinatory scenes, visual puns authored by a mischievous agent. Mocking laughter that shatters the illusion and causes viewers to doubt the assumptions implicit in their viewing, disrupts stills of what seem to be unpopulated landscapes.

Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Sacrifice