Federsee presents us with a tangible, ethnographic portrait of a ritual in a disenchanted world. The unmasked face of a participant sitting inside a public bus appears to be ethnology in the most graphic sense of the term. In this film Skoog shows us that he is a camera man. The ethnographic material formed by the camera provides unlimited variation: It should not be reduced to any dogmatic formula; academic or artistic. Indeed, it cannot be reduced to dogma since nothing can explain away everything. This multiplicity of the cinematographic image seems to be at once its great impenetrability and the source of its greatest strength.
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John Skoog
2011, 00:11:50