Reynold Reynolds (US/DE) | Six Apartments

SYNOPSIS

Six Apartments is a poetic document of decline and deterioration—both physical and ideal, hypnotic and melancholic. Six isolated occupants of six different apartments live their lives unaware of each other. Without drama they eat food, wander between rooms, bathe, watch television, and sleep. For them, this is life. Reynolds' Six Apartments sustains a mood of hopelessness, or perhaps more optimistically, one of melancholia, and even if the occupants remain unaware, the viewer sees: in death lies a great activity of life.

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY

For ten years Reynold Reynolds has been working primarily with 16mm and Super 8 film as an art medium. He has created installations, documentaries, found footage works, made narrative and experimental films, and developed a common film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. He has participated in numerous art exhibitions, including the 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Into Me/ Out of Me at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and Kunst- Werke Berlin Institute for Contemporary Art, Focus Istanbul at Martin Gropius Bau and Destroy, She Said at Julia Stoschek Collection. He lives in New York City and in Berlin.

FILMOGRAPHY

• Missing Berlin (Destroyed), 2008, 4:00, three screen video projection loop transferred from Super 8
• Secret Life, 2008, 5:00, two screen video projection loop transferred from 16mm
• Six Apartments, 2007, 12:00, two screen video projection loop transferred from 16mm
• After the vernissage, 2007, 12:00, short film, 16mm
• Istanbul, 2005, installation
• Stadtplan, 2005, installation
• Sugar, 2005 (in collaboration with Patrick Jolley, Samara Golden)
• Based on an actual event, 2002, three channel video installation
• Burn, 2002 (in collaboration with Patrick Jolley)
• The Last News, 2002 (in collaboration with Christoph Draeger)
• Apocalipso Place, 2000 (in collaboration with Christoph Draeger)
• The Drowning Room, 2000 (in collaboration with Patrick Jolley)
• System 3, 1999 (in collaboration with Christoph Draeger)
• Seven Days till Sunday, 1998 (in collaboration with Patrick Jolley)
• The History of the Future, 1996
• NYC Symphony, 1995