"The Way Things Go"
16 mm, colour 30 min.
T&C Film, Zurich
Peter FISCHLI & David WEISS (Switzerland) T&C Film, Zurich
1987

FischliI & Weiss, two Swiss artists who have been working together since later1970s, present a funny yet thrilling, 30-minute-long film piece. Perfectly ordinary objects, such as chairs, bottles, buckets and tires, cause domino effect-like chain reactions. Witness a "performance" combining thought-out mechanisms and elements of coincidence, in which energy is being transformed from rolling wheels to overflowing foam, from spouting fire and smoke to...