«Fullscreen» is currently in development, with completion planned for 2026. This rough cut shows the current state of the work – the image is still undergoing corrections, the sound is being professionally mixed in collaboration with musician and sound artist Simon Berz, and the text will be recorded by Annie Ellicott for the final version.

 

“Fullscreen” examines how media have shaped our perception of space and time over the course of history. An endless camera move expands away from the vanishing point, revealing new dimensions of representation layer by layer. The journey passes through twelve stations of media history: from the Big Bang through cave painting and ancient theatres, the libraries of Timbuktu, medieval stained glass and Renaissance perspective, to today’s digital interfaces.
For each epoch, screen sets are arranged and filmed in the studio. The screens show a white, empty image; their white balance produces a colour cast that travels from violet through the light spectrum. These abstract picture spaces take up the way space was perceived and depicted in each era. The picture-in-picture principle makes the act of representation its subject: screens show screens show screens, a “mise en abyme” of our mediated perception. The visible construction subverts the illusion of pictorial space and points to the medium itself.
On the audio level, the journey is condensed into poetry. Reflections from numerous thinkers have entered the text, from Plato through Hildegard of Bingen and Marshall McLuhan to Donna Haraway. The text is spoken by Annie Ellicott and accompanied by a soundtrack by sound artist Simon Berz, whose sound sources shift with each epoch: from stone and glass through metal to analogue and digital machines.
With every epoch the work gains density and speed until it arrives in the present. The screens go dark from back to front, the power fails, the soundtrack collapses. In the silence, a single word. The text deconstructs its own narrative: the timeline reveals itself as built, perspective as a standpoint. Viewers are thrown back on their own position in this endless chain.
 

Behind the Screens — the making of “Fullscreen”

English subtitles will be added in a later version.

 

 

Recording setup in the studio with screens and camera on a motorized tripod.