14:32 min., no sound, DVD PAL
©Rune Peitersen 2005

“Ultimately reality exists only as projected light. We are stages on light’s path. The whole of technology is a late cult of the sun.”
Paul Virilio

The video Fire is inspired by the Cave analogy in Plato’s Republic. The video is shot in a manner which make the images appear as one could imagine the shadowy images on the wall in the cave appear to the prisoners in the original story.

The video consists of seven 2-minute fragments of ambiguous imagery and suggestive narrational elements. The visual and narrative information is reduced to a point where the viewer has to engage actively in applying significance to the imagery before him. Rather than deciphering a given narrative made up of recognizable elements, he is forced to apply meaning to the imagery before he can engage in creating a narrative.
In doing so, his own position as a viewer becomes intricately linked to establishing meaning to the viewed.

Credits:
Actors: Iris Bruning, Camilla Eliasen, Bojan Fajfric, Huib Haye van der Werf
Direction/editing/production: Rune Peitersen

Realized with the support of The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Architechture and Design