Letter/Complaint

Abstract

'Letter of Complaint' celebrates the craft and affect of the formal complaint letter, presented in three scenes with interludes. Commissioned by Cubitt in partnership with Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne. Following the showing of the work at Cubitt between 22 January – 1 March 2015, from 6 March – 12 April 2015 the work was exhibited in The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema’s purpose-built space dedicated to the moving image. The work draws on a combination of banal and desperate letters of complaint to communicate something that could perhaps even be called celebratory. The film follows Reupke’s ongoing interest in the expressive properties of stock images and the ways in which they respond and transform, when coupled with stillness and awkwardness. It is a process of introducing a level of fragility and ambivalence into images that have been emptied of these properties.