Swimming Pool / Paradise Now, 2012, HD

Swimming Pool / Paradise Now appropriates elements typically associated with genre cinema, radically shifting their context and function. Film, understood here in its purest form as one of the least constrained artistic media, operates through an entirely autonomous visual language that does not require a literary layer or, consequently, a traditionally conceived script derived from literature. By drawing on visual tropes characteristic of thriller and neo-noir cinema, Swimming Pool / Paradise Now strips them of their narrative and literary components, leaving the viewer alone with film in its most distilled, purely cinematic form.