THE SECRET TRIOLOGY

THE SECRET TRIOLOGY, 2008-2010
Director: Reynold Reynolds / Germany / 34’ / No speech
Six Easy Pieces (Germany, 2010, 3 channels of HD video transferred from 16 mm and photo stills) Six Easy

Pieces is the last part of the Secrets Trilogy; a three-part cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life and is preceded by Secret Life, 2008 (won the 2008 EMAF Festival Award at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, Germany) and Secret Machine, 2009 (3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2009, Russia) The work is based on the book “Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher” by Richard P. Feynman Secret Machine (Reynold Reynolds,2009, two channel video projection, transferred from 16 mm and stills, 7 min.) The same protagonist from Secret Life encounters an antagonist that is studying her, measuring her body and comparing her to units of space and time. Secret Machine is the second from a three-part cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life. Secret Life (Reynold Reynolds, 2008, two channel video projection, transferred from 16mm and stills, 5min. ) A woman is trapped in an apartment that becomes alive. Her thoughts escape from her and come to life growing like plants out into the space around her, living, searching, overtaking her apartment, wild threatening her.