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My Frontier is an Endless Wall of Points (after the mescaline drawings of Henri Michaux) 16 mm black and white film installation, 10.5 minutes, 2007
In the 19th century exploration was geographic. Journeys into impassable jungles or the ice deserts of the Arctic in an attempt to map the last "white" spots on the globe. But in the 20th century this notion of the "unknown" changed. Exploration turned inward. The new realms to be explored were the molecule (Niels Bohr), the unconscious (Sigmund Freud), language (Gertrud Stein) or the outskirts of the mind (Henri Michaux).
My Frontier is an Endless Wall of Points is a 16mm black and white film animation created from the mescaline drawings of Henri Michaux. Of all Michaux's work these drawings are most often described as a "venture into foreign territory". They are seen as an exploration of a vast world on the borderline of words. My work is literally an attempt to animate this idea. I will examine the traces of this journey in series of rapidly moving images and make what could be termed a psychedelic documentary.
Joachim Koester, 2007
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