THE PARTY IS OVER

Technik: Full HD, Stereo, 2016

Länge: 2:50 min.

For no matter how invigorating the experience may have been, what is left in the end is the shell, the memory, the ghost of what was once so visceral and alive. An abandoned truck. A sexy girl. An empty bottle. What was and what could have been, what will forever go unsaid, and what can never be said in words alone. Technically, the idea of blurring the line between photography, painting, film and collage is nothing new under the sun. But Rein does it in such a way as to create flashbacks of what were once a heightened sense of awareness, a satori of imagery, vivid and yet otherworldly, however fleeting at the time, but gone now forever.

“The Party’s Over”, but the highlights are embedded in our memory, etched in stone, or celluloid, or canvas. Udo Rein, the impresario, doesn’t give us the coming attractions. That would be too easy. He is more interested in the still shots that will live forever, plucked from the feature film of his life and perhaps everyman’s. You may not be able to step into the same river once, but you can savor the moment forever.

Robert Levy, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2013