Und Sie?

” In Und Sie one image is maintained for the eleven minutes of the film, only being changed through minimal shifts in focus, the image being mostly in soft focus throughout. The technique of continual exposure to a still image is closely related to Warhol’s us of the freeze-frame in Sleep, and Snow’s later use in One Second In Montreal. However in the Heins’ film attention is continually encouraged by minimal changes of the surface and focus of the image, and continually discouraged by inability to clearly identify the picture. Durational experience in this case is seen to be a function of perceptual attention.” – Malcolm LeGrice, Abstract Film and Beyond.