Bank clerk on his 30th birthday

- November 30 -

David Maljkovic, Recalling Frames, 2010. B/W photographs, framed + 16 mm film, sound, 3’20. Currently exhibited at Sprüth Magers London.
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In the context of Maljkovic’s exhibition, Recalling Frames specifically refers to the extraction of single frames from a film sequence and hence to the concentration upon particular captured moments in time. His latest series of photographs focuses on selected film stills from Orson Welles’ movie The Trial (1962). […] For his new series of works, Maljkovic tracked down the various shooting locations of The Trial in Zagreb and photographed them from exactly the same camera positions. He then alternately placed the negatives of the modern-day views and the corresponding film stills on top of one another, or combined sections of both and exposed them simultaneously. […] The coincidence of past and present in these pictures reveals how the specific locations within the city have changed and reflects the social transformation of Zagreb since the 1960s.
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