2018, 35mm slides, 2xslide projectors, optical toys, light sensitive sound, 35 min.
Film performance
Voice over: Pasi Mäkelä

Reflections of the light while crossing dark forests of the enlightened self and seeking the way out of here. Intermittent image as a tool for examination of the movement. Exercises of different nature for two slide projectors, two shutters, two performers, one voice and one audience.

The performance There must be some way out of here was inspired by reflections on human knowledge on vision and moving image. The human vision, one of the five senses, is situated in his physical body but leads the human outside his body and connects him with the outer world. Seeing moving images as well as hearing a melody is a coincidence of the physiological and mental abilities. The moving image is a construct that calls to be deconstructed and reconstructed again, if for nothing else then for the pleasure it provides. The Victorian so called philosophical toys (thaumatrope, phenakistiscope etc.) conserved exactly these two proprieties – such a pleasant toy analyzed the visual effect but didn’t erase it. The analysis was tightly joined with the illusion.
The systematic deconstruction and classification of our mysterious world was one of the main concerns of the Enlightenment project. The thinking of this period boldly formed the European culture that is tangible till nowadays. The metaphor of the light as the intellect and the reason armed European people with the feeling of predominance. This calling leads us to the dark side of the Enlightenment and maybe till the contemporary crisis of postcolonial and soon post-digital world.
The fragile moving image of the performance There must be some way out of here is narrated by a stranger male voice that leads the spectator from the state of relaxation through the mobilization of his forces to the dictate of the light and digital awareness to leave him finally in peace with a recomforting source of tender light promising a relief.