EFFEN SPIEGEL VAN EEN STILLE STROOM

The first frame shows an empty interior. On the left there are a brightly lit surface and a mantel support on the floor; to the right stands a female figure clothed in shirt and jeans. The scale and perspective seem skewed, and it is not until she moves out of the visual field that we notice that the right half of the screen is a mirror reflecting the space behind the camera. She comes to take up similar pose directly in front of the camera almost filling the screen, or goes to stand in front of her image. In either case, as in Spiegel, we only see the whole, ‘idealized’ figure in the mirror; and again, the game of posing formally for the camera is abandoned to informality: sitting, smoking, waiting…