1968 Rechts/Links

(Right/Left)

(Two screen cinema)

23' 16-mm s/w

With Sigmar Polke u. Kiki Meyer

Here version for a canvas: A man and a woman at different places. The woman visits the man. In a cushion battle cushions whirl back and forth.

..... In "left right" (24 min) a room with a woman appears on the left canvas, to right the one a man . Both persons bore themselves. Finally the woman leaves her room and emerges a little later on the other canvas with the man. He goes getting Cola; in the meantime the Woman changes Canvas and room; He returns, he is again alone. Then begins an enormous cushion battle, which cushions fly from canvas to canvas, feathers/springs whirl (in Kassel completely material: Mommartz threw feathers/springs into a large fan. Its plan to let the spectators also throw with cushions could not be realized to its regret). Finally both contractors are exhausted, rest themselves in their rooms. The projection jet, in the cigarette smoke visibly become, remains as only communication: from the abdomen of the man it shoots crosswise by the area in the back of the woman.........

....... At the beginning of the Dokumenta in Kassel Mommartz started in the, for the time of the exhibition established Dependance of the > Creamcheese< . Attempts to work with two canvases which it set up in the distance of ten meters each other opposite (between them was tanzflaeche). Into each canvas it had cut a hole ("the destruction of the canvas is important. One may not have reverence before the picture"), behind that a projector stood and projected his picture on the opposite canvas....

(H.P. Kochenrath Film Jan. 69)