THE LOST (2013/1933)
7-channel film installation (15-20min/channel) //
110 min. feature film
HD video transferred from 16mm

Synopsis
The Lost is a B&W film with a plot told through the eyes of a young English writer, Christopher, who comes to Berlin and moves into a cabaret where an eccentric old man adopts young performers, dancers, artists and musicians to live and work in his building. In the basement Christopher witnesses experiments on the edge of life and death which seem more mysterious than scientific. While he settles in, wanders the city and begins to write, the cabaret is under threat from upstanding citizens and authorities, who claim that what goes on in the building is immoral.

Origin
The title is a reference to the first intention of a book that Christopher Isherwood started writing after his stay in Berlin from 1929-1933. “The Lost” was stretched not to only mean ‘The Astray and The Doomed’- referring tragically to the political events in Germany, but also to refer to those individuals whom respectable society shuns in horror.

Filming
The Lost is based on material filmed in Berlin in the thirties. Turbulent times during the rise of the Nazi regime put a halt to the production of the film. Reynolds discovered and remade the film between 2011-2013.
Almost all scenes have been filmed in open art space such as Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Sprengel Museum, DB Museum Nurnberg & Koblenz, Galerie Zink in Berlin and Christopher Grimes Gallery in Los Angeles.

The Lost

Six Easy Pieces is the last part of the Secrets Trilogy; a three-part cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life and is preceded by Secret Life, 2008 (won the 2008 EMAF Festival Award at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, Germany) and Secret Machine, 2009 (3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2009, Russia)
The work is based on the book
“Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher”.
by Richard P. Feynman 
and brings together the following foundations:

1) Film as the Seventh Art, "a superb conciliation of the Rhythms of Space (the Plastic Arts) and the Rhythms of Time (music, poetry and dance)", a synthesis of the ancient arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry and dance.

-Ricciotto Canudo

2) “Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”

-Gottfried Leibniz

3) “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.”

-Bruce Nauman

Reynold Reynolds deconstructs film as the perfect synthesis of art and technology and the process of capturing, recording and bringing it back to life. The work connects art and science, focusing on space and time and romantically refers to an age when artists and scientists had similar concerns and were often one and the same person, as typified by Leonardo da Vinci. Philosophically and scientifically, the concept of time has been extensively discussed and investigated for more than twenty-five centuries, yet its real nature remains still unresolved; it has proven more mysterious and profound than life itself, but where the scholar fails, the artist dares tread.

Six Easy Pieces

Reynold Reynolds
reynold-reynolds.com
Germany, 2009

HD video transferred from 16mm and photo stills

Single channel HD projection 14 min or 2 channel HD projection each 7 min. 

Synopsis:
Secret Machine is the second of the Secrets Trilogy; a cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life and is preceded by Secret Life (2008) and followed by Six Easy Pieces (2010)

In Secret Machine a woman is subjected to Muybridge’s motion studies. She is treated in the same fashion as in the original Muybridge photography: with Greek aesthetic in a Cartesian grid. A short time after Mybridge’s studies, Duchamp painted Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) attempting to show time on a flat surface. He is expanding cubism and painting into another dimension: time. Time is about movement and change, like our experience of reality. Without change life does not exist. Photography does not capture this experience. In Secret Machine different filming techniques are compared to the motion of the body. The film camera becomes another measurement tool in a way a video camera cannot. The intention was to make an art piece from the point of view of a machine, specifically a camera. 

Award 
“Secret Machine” won the First Prize - Jury’s Choice at the Black Maria Film Festival. 2009

Exhibition 
3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2009, Russia
Sundance Film Festival 2009

Secret Machine

Reynold Reynolds
reynold-reynolds.com
Germany, 2008

HD video transferred from 16mm and photo stills

Single channel HD projection 10 min or 2 channel HD projection each 5 min. 

Synopsis:
Secret Life is the first of the Secrets Trilogy; a cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life and is followed by Secret Machine (2009) and Six Easy Pieces (2010)

Secret Life portrays a woman trapped in an apartment with a life of its own. Transcending the narrative horizons of human desire, the film visits upon us a glimpse of a shared and sacred reality. A work that defies the ultimate metaphysical taboos of temporality by combining novel technique with intrepid philosophical vision; and daring to present that which is seldom, if ever, portrayed in any artistic medium. 
Impossibilities are made possible through Reynolds’ signature aesthetic, a lens that can fill one with reverence for the mundane. 
Have you ever wondered what time sees, experiences? Without mortal assumptions about time, the occupant of the apartment is no longer limited even to unique location, but here, seen through the eye of time, space itself is now become alive. Without the context of space and time, the woman’s mind collapses and neglects the organization of her experience, leaving her only with sensations. The viewer may ask: Is it her mind or is it time itself that creates the uncontrolled and uncontrollable environment? The work suggests that all living things are endowed with consciousness, meaning all living things have awareness. While the space increases in its activity, the woman becomes an ever more passive element in her world. She moves at a mechanical speed and her mind is like a clock whose hands pin the events of her life to the tapestry of time, all the while, the truth is transcendentally reflected in the mechanical eye of the camera. Her thoughts escape her and come to life, growing like the plants that inhabit the space around her: living, searching, feeling, breathing and dying.

Award
“Secret Life” won the 2008 EMAF Festival Award at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, Germany.

Selected Exhibitions
“As Soon As Possible” Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS) Florence Italy May – August 2010
Akademie der Künste Berlin Germany April 21- June 20 2010 “Unwetter”, curated by Alfons Hug
“Best of Loop” MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA. Dec 2009- Feb 2010 

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