The Baker

"The Baker", is an experimental video work that includes, cinema, performance, dance, and text work. The work wanders between dreaming and waking, between narrative and wild association, between spirit and matter, and examines the interrelationships between the edges of these concepts of thinking in the context of video work.
With conscious and present inspiration, we enter through the work a surrealistic horror cinema, an audio-visual flirtation between a so-called plot move, and a disjointed plot with a double narrative, at the same time, a loop within a loop of man and dough, two that are an inseparable part of each other.
The seemingly fictional story about a man stuck in a pizzeria in an endless loop of kneading dough and dreaming of getting out of there is one side of the present that takes place in the film. On the other side, another movement takes place at the same time, in an internal basement, where the dough we met in the pizzeria is the primeval material, a primal that flows inward into the inner state of the baker and produces from the interaction between the two an image, an emotional universe that invites compositions and aesthetics that correspond directly with the corresponding present.
Through the material and physical occupation, the "baker" touches on missing out and failure, on the dream and the inability to shape the material into a finished form. The separation between the person and the dispossessed material gradually fades into a movement within a movement, a kind of endless dreaming and waking, fragments of a story in which the only certain thing is the physical material that can be felt and held on to - the dough.
The kneading is a performance within itself, the desire to run away from the kneading and escape from it is another performance, the difference between them is the presence in a liminal space where the image stands up to its creator.
In this work, Marcus produces a mirage, a double and simultaneous plot that turns out to be a game within a game. The endless loop shown on the screen is also filmed and perhaps even staged and seeks to become material itself - an invisible and indeterminate time, a space where a non-linear emotional state exists that moves between the edges and stretches them like dough that stretches, flows and torn and finally gathered again and again until it emerges its final form.