By Manfred Naescher
Berlin, Germany: self-published, first edition, 2010
Pages: 28
Dimensions: 8.25 in X 5.75 in
Cover: cardstock
Binding: staplebound
Process: digital printing
Color: full color throughout
Edition Size: 100, signed and numbered
ISBN: none

A book of drawings of mountains in films (with subtitles)

Basing the approach for this series of drawings on the ideas of interplay and chance, I invited a number of artists, curators, designers, musicians and journalists to submit screenshots or photos of mountains in films with subtitles. The ready-made juxtapositions of text and image that I received through e-mail and that I then translated into drawings on paper offer varying degrees of tension between what is said and what is shown. The subtitles range from the prosaic or descriptive to the obscure and metaphysical. From the interplay between text and image arises a complex reciprocal relationship between the ephemeral, intangible nature of language and the relative permanence of the mountain. The source images for this series are from L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960), Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006), The Bucket List (Rob Reiner, 2007), Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001), The Silent Star (Kurt Maetzig, 1960), Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950), and Twin Peaks (David Lynch, 1990). This project would not have been possible without the kind assistance of Raffael Doerig, Sebastian Haslauer, Mirak Jamal, Patrick Juchli, Markus Schoenfeld, Christian Walt, and Easton West.