seek.01

‘The film is a search. It describes different atmospheres, velocities and scales in which a traveller, intermittently encouraged and desperate, is looking for a place he can rest and identify with. Sometimes frustrating one wishes to stop the search; but suddenly this exciting city can be enjoyable, or it seems as if one has already arrived... The city is endless, full, anonymous and perpetually repetitive. Faces are distant and impalpable in their seclusion. The only places in the city are those where streams of different movements come together just to be divided again and thus attracting, like magnets, people lights and sounds’

seek.O1 was shot over 2 weeks in Tokyo using a digital camera and timelapse recordings. The work has been shown in Tokyo and New York and is now opening in London at the 291 Gallery. Tapio Snellman and Cristian Grou are both trained as architects and have worked collaboratively on video works since 1997. Cristian Grou was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1969 and is of Romanian/German descent, Tapio Snellman was born in 1969 in Helsinki, Finland and is of Finnish/Swiss descent.