Images, harvested on a farm in Mount Forest, Canada, captured with a hand-cranked Bolex, on film material that is made for sound only. Processed in buckets, in shimmering red light down by the old stables. A glimpse through the cracks, somebody is walking in the meadow, trees trembling in the wind, flowers, grass.
A world that only film can see, a material flow emerging from the coupling of camera, celluloid, silver salts, chemicals, light particles and the hand of the filmmaker. The film was entirely processed by hand and chemically treated: overexposed images were brought back to life with bleach, other images were solarized and reversed.
With a Bolex and analogue black-and-white material, which is actually used for sound recording, Markus Maicher captured ephemeral moments in nature on a farm in Canada and developed the film roles by hand in an improvised darkroom. Into the Wild is raw, scratched, fragile, fleeting—and full of ghostly beauty.
— Michele Koch, Diagonale
