History channel: the films of Mathias Poledna.

IN MATHIAS POLEDNA'S 16 mm black-and-white film Version, 2004, silence is deafening. The Los Angeles-based, Austrian-born artist's most recent film features a dark space in which a group of young dancers sway languidly, their movements registering an unhurried and tranquilizing rhythm. The setting is strangely airless, a spatiotemporal vacuum that indicates nothing of its location; the music is audible only to those on screen as they weave about in a kind of trance-induced shuffle, an affectless ten-minute performance that loops repeatedly when projected.

Poledna trains his camera ...

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