Introduction
The work of Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba is characterized by her conceptual approach to film. The focus is on the interest in the relationship between film, space and viewer. Composition, the physicality of form and plasticity play an important role in the perception of her work. Barba's handling of film is sculptural: the deconstruction of filmic elements creates kinetic objects and installations in space. Her works are located between experimental documentation and fictional narration and take place in an indefinite period of time. Using the camera as a drawing instrument, Barba explores places and situations for their formal shape and for historical connotations and traces. She then interweaves these with her own narrative levels into fictions.