A film? A snapshot of the past? A legendary moment. In his new project photographer MARC TRAUTMANN creates situations that put the viewer in the position of an innocent bystander in a movie scene, but which movie? The cinemascope format plays with the DNA of film shots which lead the viewer to believe they already know what they see. The images suggest they are taken from a thriller, a film noir or from other crime genres in cinema culture.
The protagonists seem somehow haunted and lost at the same time. Things seem out of place. There is too much space. Or not enough. What is the story? What happened before? What will happen next? There is an interaction between viewer and character in the photo. Dreams, longings and essential fears are evoked. The light in the scenes stages the situation. In this way the stills show the essence of a complete movie plot framed in one single shot. The project continues.
Cinemascope photography is a homage to images of movies on the big screen displayed in the large cinemascope format of 235 x 1. The action seems to be frozen at a crucial plot point. For this publication Marc Trautmann used a 16/9 cache.
