To the point! Only – which one? Or: Why is the ground always being dug up?

Patrick Alan Banfield’s new video was created in collaboration with Nicolas C. Geissler. A narrator guides performers and viewers. Work step follows work step. The narrator knows how to motivate: ‘You’re almost there!’ However, there is no sign of targeted progress. Even though structure is repeatedly suggested here, it constantly dissolves into falling pebbles.

At the interface between commercial over-aestheticisation and deconstructive video art, Banfield and Geissler examine the genre of ‘instructional films’ and the depiction of comprehensive purposefulness of undirected activity. What is the justification for pure, aimless activity and sensual experience?