Heinz Breloh
«Two Cameras Capture a Room»

In my five video works (1974-76), space and movement are what interest me as a sculptor. The video camera is slower than the human eye – the faster the camera movement, the more pronounced the blurring of the recorded shapes. If the video camera records bright/dark contrasts, then they 'burn' into the camera as negative images. 'Point, Line, Surface' is the combination of both these video-specific phenomenons. The camera receives an impulse movement until it comes to a standstill.
Heinz Breloh

Documentation of a closed-circuit action with two cameras: one is suspended from ropes and, on receiving an impulse from the artist, weaves through a room in which the back wall and floor are fitted with a cross-shaped raster, meaning the moving camera runs through blurred, then distorted, lines before coming to a stop. The second camera records the movement of the first one. The two perspectives are played back in parallel on two monitors.