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Berlin-based artist Volker Thies was born in Nienburg/Weser (Germany) in 1957 and studied at the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1980s.
Initially working in drawing and painting, he began experimenting with video and Super 8 film in the late 1990s. For the past 25 years, Thies has worked primarily with photography.

Film Screening
Quai de l’Indépendance 
2000, two Super 8 films, color, 3 min. each, double projection, looped
2025 2K digitized, 2-channel projection

Two Super 8 films, projected in parallel, show a panoramic view of Lac Leman in time-lapse.

Both films were shot in Cully in 2000 in single-frame mode. In the first film, the total number of its 3,600 images was exposed over a period of two days from midnight to midnight, with the camera position remaining constant, i.e., a single frame was taken every 48 seconds.

The camera was then panned to the right into the adjacent panoramic view, and the 3,600 images of the second film were shot, but this time over a period of only one day, i.e., a single frame every 24 seconds, again from midnight to midnight.

Shown as an analog endless double projection, the two short films were an experiment across time and space and, as early as 2000, a homage to the dying medium of Super 8 film. The only working prints of the films were destroyed in a fire at the Geneva gallery MIRE in 2000. In 2006, Kodak shut down its only remaining European Kodachrome laboratory in Lausanne.

In 2025, both originals were digitized in 2K in Switzerland and are now, after 25 years, experiencing their originally unintended digital performance at the place of their creation.

Sketches and Letters for the Geneva exhibition in 2000

The artist at the opening

Many thanks to Ariane Epars, who made this exhibition possible!