24 Minutes on June 24
Video, 24:00 min, color, sound.
Photo series: 24 stills.
Performance, 2025
One day, one window. A smartphone. One minute every hour. Only what is visible. Anapa.
The work continues the method first used in the video 24 Minutes on April 12 (2021), where each minute corresponds to one hour of the day.
On June 24, 2025, I filmed a one-minute fragment every hour from the window of an apartment in Anapa, using a smartphone. The camera performs a fourfold movement of the gaze: forward, down, right, and left. This sequence is repeated with slight shifts, forming a fragile structure of observation, where the gaze itself becomes a gesture.
The sound was recorded directly on the smartphone without additional editing; automatic noise reduction and volume leveling create a fragmented, unnatural audio that paradoxically emphasizes the distance and nature of the recording.
The nightly repetition turns observation into a bodily practice. Returning to the window becomes a rhythm of attention, through which time, date, and place manifest.
Traditions
The work can be situated within the tradition of structural film, where the focus is not on narrative but on a formal temporal system. Repetition, alternating viewpoints, and a fixed shooting mode create a metric structure in which each hour is captured by a one-minute episode. The artist here is not a director of events, but a participant in a recurring ritual of observation.
