TRANSIT



The idea of transit leads us to concentrate on movement, which also suggests a hypothetical starting point and destination.

Being video an art of movement, we try to deal with the passage from one state to another and not with each one as a still position.

This brings to memory the pictures of bodies in motion, with their torn edges, as if they wanted to show that its justification actually lies in the flux between two points, resisting a static definition, a perfect register.

 

Change and transition:

In none of the traditional systems of analysis there is transit without change of state. Once the body is in transit, it will never be the same; change is inexorable.

In traditional science, an analysis is often carried out by which an equation is formulated: the initial state plus/minus the phenomena that occur during transit (change of state) can explain the final result (if none of the elements at play have been omitted – that’s the catch).

Inmateriality:

Where lies the immaterial? Will we ever be able to measure or gauge the changes in spirit?

If with a very precise scale we could weigh a work of art on two different occasions, before and after being finished: would the needle show any variation due to the incorporation of "aura" to the work of art?  

 

Levitation:

The state of levitation seems to take place at those instances where the starting point and the final stage could be altered.

It would rather seem like a third state in which for one moment the reign of the laws of physics could be suspended and in which we would be able to return to any of the two prior states without any loss of energy. During levitation there is no real transit: this stage, different from the initial and the final ones, could continue without us being able to predict the moment in which we will return to the previous stage.
 

 

Transit:

Why is death, in the majority of religions, associated with a state of transit, of passage between one place and another? Does any change take place during that transit?

Could that movement be registered, even through torn statements?

Will the equations for our analysis work? One of the functions of any equation is to be able to elicit the final result knowing the initial one and the changes: will we be able to imagine the final state after death if we could picture that transit, if we could imagine the transit towards it?



© 1998

SVHS - PALB

Approximate length: 8 min
Direction: Ricardo Pons

Actor: Diego Perrotta
Production Assistant: Gabriela Larrañaga
Sound and Image Editing: Ricardo Pons