Atelier

Hans Schabus has already put his studio through a great deal, for example the installation of a sizable model railroad just under the ceiling (Passagier // 2000) and a five-meter hole in the floor he dug himself (Schacht von Babel // 2003). Atelier covers the artist’s work space with another — filmic — room. The durations and sizes of shots, sequence of scenes and camera movements in this nine-minute work meticulously reconstruct the finale of Sam Peckinpah’s western The Wild Bunch (1969), and it also employs the other film’s soundtrack: Scenes of an almost empty street in Vienna are...