Roberto Lucca Taroni

Doing the America thing: riding around in a car, looking out at the landscape (desert, trees and bushes, cities), observing the driver, enjoying the ride as a pure, almost primeval cinematic act. All bookended by phantom rides through the bright lights of Las Vegas. – Olaf Möller

A spot for Absolut Vodka shot on video by Mario Schifano and Roberto Lucca Taroni.

Shots of the protagonist’s mouth and face as he speaks during a train journey, interspersed with close-ups of TV texture and images of a dark environment in which fluorescent lights stand out. The male actor’s voice is dubbed with a recording of Meret Oppenheim reading her poems.

Two frantic views of Roberto Taroni and Luisa Cividin’s private life in New York. The first faces a double window at night, with Cividin smoking and getting dressed while Taroni putters around; the second shows a studio-like wide room, a toilet and ironing board, with Taroni looking lost in some work while now Cividin putters around. – Olaf Möller

A free form film poem. Moving through inside and outside spaces Luisa Cividin unties a knot made with two curtains. Followed by Roberto Taroni smoking until he starts to turn around his axis, first in front of the window with the now re-tied curtains and then in slow motion seemingly in front of some stairs. A 70s enigma. – Olaf Möller

A brief tracking shot between two train stations in Wuppertal is repeated six times with imperceptible breaks; the seamless audio results in a shift in perception, rendering what is actually fragmentary but repetitive unitary but different.

A landscape shot during a journey is deconstructed, measured, and recomposed using the rear-view mirror of a van, the external viewfinder of a camera, and a hand.