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ILLUMINATIONS
Reflecting on Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, I was drawn to his idea that an artwork loses its aura when it is reproduced. I filmed a scene, then re-filmed it using the same camera, repeating the process again and again. With each reproduction, the image degraded and transformed, eventually becoming something entirely different—perhaps even closer to the aura it originally had. Through this repetition, the process revealed hidden qualities in the image, as if each layer of distortion uncovered something new. The further the image drifted from its original clarity, the more it seemed to reclaim a unique presence, distancing itself from pure mechanical reproduction. In a way, this act of filming became a ritual—a technological reenactment that, rather than erasing the aura, reimagined it in a different form.
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00:06:12, loop
2013