Ruth en de rivier

Ruth en de rivier (Maastricht, the Netherlands; Salzburg, Austria, 1998) explores cinematic duration through two contrasting mediums. A thirty-minute VHS recording captures a river’s steady flow, presenting time in a linear, unfolding manner. Alongside it, a looped 15-meter Super-8 film shows a woman picking her teeth as an endlessly repeating moment. By juxtaposing these parallel views of time—one linear, one cyclical—the work explores how we experience and comprehend duration through moving images.