As a video artist I observe my own observation mechanism, no less than I do my object of observation. The limits of the medium and its methods are an important starting point for my creative process. As an artist who thinks her art through the medium, it is important for me to engage in dialogue with cinema, and to rethink my own language. This reflexive gaze allows me to raise questions on art and its place in the world, but even more so it is a reflexive gaze on my own self and my own inner processes. This is a movement between the gaze out onto language – the language of the medium – and in, onto myself.
In working on a film, it is important to me that the logic of the action or event will dictate the progression of things, and less so my judgment, and decisions as a director. I look to tell a story with the camera, the house, and the objects in the house, and with the least possible effects and editorial manipulations. In order for this to occur, I dictate a structure or a mechanism assembled of set principles, and I remain loyal to them. From the moment these are set the film takes on a life of its own, independent of me and relaying only on the inner logic of the structure I created.
In most of my works, the camera plays a role of a "leading actor", it is the one who sees and observes. Through its gaze and the choreography of its movement the camera instills life in the inanimate, and creates a blurring between the living and the still, the active and passive.
My two most recent works, “OM” and “Following You Following Me”, have an almost performative quality - my presence in a limbo, alone in front of the camera, in a non-place, comes to create tension and concentration in the viewer with basic and minimal means such as - a look, a body gesture, a camera movement, and the sound these produce. In these works I avoided creating fictional environments, working with actors, or portraying a specific place or character. I tried to reach something as universal as possible that doesn't belong in a specific place or time, and through that evoke a specific and concrete feeling.