The Chase

Overview

Created for Time Unfolding, a programme of single screen films produced by Picture This and curated by Lucy Reynolds. With The Chase, Oechsler succeeds in creating a feeling of threateningly intense psychological strain with simple means. It can also be understood as a race between two people who are a couple; whose rivalry is that much more aggressive because of the intimacy of their relationship. The video consciously refuses to offer a deeper psychological analysis of the scene inasmuch as it does not offer any background information on the runners’ personalities. In The Chase Oechsler isolates a feeling of psychological pressure and portrays it in its purest form. (Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue videonale 9, text by Jan Verwoert)