Couple, 2010

35 mm film loop, aspect ratio 4:3, colour, 5’23”
projector, loop system
approx. 300 x 400 cm
edition 3 + 1 AP
added: ProRes 422 HQ, aspect ratio 16:9
N.B. Couple is part of Life, a concert in collaboration with composer Louis Andriessen with four films.

Note / Curator Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen once photographed the former museum director Bram Hammacher and his wife while they rested on a bench in the Giardini di Venezia during a visit to the Biennale. In response to this, Van Warmerdam made the film loop Couple, in which the camera traces a circular motion above and beneath them, sometimes in a distinct close-up, sometimes viewed from a distance or from above.