Canale Grande

Photographer, performer, video, and installation artist, Friederike Pezold, sees Canale Grande as “a protest against a standardization of the world of images... a call for radical subjectivity.” Shot in Berlin and Vienna, Pezold straps a homemade contraption to her body which allows her to shoot and be seen in close-circuit video. “Pezoldo,” a subversive, deadpan, Austrian artist is a well-kept secret among videophiles and this is her first venture in 35 mm. filmmaking (shot with maestria by cinematographer Elfie Mikesch). CANALE GRANDE is a joyful, ironic combination of early video and film, free from conventions of narrative drama. “While contemporary in its freshness, the atmospheric cityscapes have a touching time capsule quality.” (DIAGONALE catalogue)