Love-Death (2005)
DVD (limited edition of 5), 18:45 loop

In an imaginary space representing a nostalgic vision of the "home of the future," a female figure toils endlessly at a task that appears as one of adjustment, while a male figure repeatedly closes or folds up the boundaries of the space. Love, in this schema, is eternal; death, an ending fixed in time but eternally repeating.

At the core of Love-Death is the juncture/disjuncture between image and music, in this case the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde." The music, filling the role of human experience, thrusts forward without resolution, giving shape to a static drama and a poetic urgency to the indifferent cycles of life, love and death.

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